Digital gadgets are changing our brains.
Historians of the future may note that around the time of the Facebook IPO a critical juncture was reached in the relationship between technology and the human race. No longer were the wired-up people on planet Earth controlling the devices that ingenious, wizardlike engineers invented to serve and connect them. Instead, the ultrasmart new devices were controlling and enslaving them—us—and doing so at frightening, ever-accelerating speed.