Natural History of the Present
Rob Brooks – Evolutionary Biologist & Author
It started with humans pushing machines’ buttons. Now they are pushing ours. When the COVID-19 pandemic sent so many people into work-from-home isolation, it funneled much of our social interaction onto the internet. Children learn via Zoom classrooms, colleagues meet on Microsoft…
Some of the ways AI is hijacking our emotional lives What happens when our evolved human minds and old-fashioned cultures encounter the technologies of the 21st Century? Specifically, I mean virtual reality, robotics, and — most important — artificial intelligence.…
Evidence that quitting Facebook for four weeks delivers long-term benefits. This article was originally published on OneZero at Medium. My screen time was up last week. Again. Along with much of humanity, staying home to avoid the coronavirus has me…
By Steven Hamblin; Michael Kasumovic, and Rob Brooks With each passing year, technology percolates further into academic life. The year 2013 might look, in hindsight, like the year academic social media use went mainstream. Numbers of tweets and Facebook likes…