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Title:
How digital technology shapes us [dvd videorecording]
Author:
Viskontas, Indre, lecturer.
ISBN:
9781629979625
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Series:
The Great courses. Science. Neuroscience & psychology

Great courses (DVD). Science.
General Note:
Course No. 9764.
Contents:
How experience alters the brain -- Are new media shortening attention spans? -- Does the Internet make us shallow thinkers? -- Outsourcing our memory -- Human versus digital content curators -- Virtual realities and our sense of self -- Screen time's impact on kids -- Video games and violence -- Is digital technology ruining sleep? -- How "Dr. Google" is changing medicine -- The virtual therapist -- How big data can predict the future -- Is privacy dead in the Information Age? -- The emotional effects of social media -- How Online dating transforms relationships -- Technology and addiction -- Is the Internet hurting democracy? -- The arts in the digital era -- How AI can enhance creativity -- Do we trust algorithms over humans? -- Could blockchain revolutionize society? -- Effects of technological metaphors on science -- Robots and the future of work -- Redefining what it means to be human.
Abstract:
"Learn how to understand and better utilize the technologies that are rapidly transforming life in the 21st century."--Container
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