Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age
Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload
$56.58
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2026
Summary
An award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them.
The human brain hasn’t changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of the Screen Age. That’s why, according to neurologist Richard Cytowic—who, Oliver Sacks observed, “changed the way we think of the human brain”—our brains are so poorly equipped to resist the incursions of Big Tech: They are programmed for the wildly different needs of a prehistoric world.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262057264 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262057263 |
| Author: | Richard E. Cytowic |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Cytowic’s common-sense takeaway—Use technology less and only on what really matters.”
—Booklist
“This is a book that it would benefit us all to read, and heed … compelling to read, truly fascinating.”
—Narrative Species
Richard E. Cytowic
Richard E. Cytowic is Professor of Neurology at George Washington University and a pioneering researcher in synesthesia. He is the author of:
- Synesthesia
- The Man Who Tasted Shapes
- The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology
He is also the co-author, with David M. Eagleman, of the Montaigne Medal-winning Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia.
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