Is technology rotting our brains?
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Let’s step away from the news today to discuss the way we consume the news. The Guardian asks, “Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?” Andrew Budson, a Boston University neurologist who specializes in memory disorders, explains our problem: we are using technology for the wrong purposes. If being isolated from the world harms our brains, but engaging with the world entangles us in its lostness, what is the way forward? We find answers today in the lives of Enoch and Noah.
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| 0:49.4 | Hello and welcome to the Wednesday, January the 28th, 2026 edition of the Daily Article |
| 0:56.3 | Podcast from Denison Forum. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article authored by our |
| 1:02.3 | co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. Let's step away from the news today to discuss the way we |
| 1:10.6 | consume the news. |
| 1:12.3 | The Guardian asks, are we living in a golden age of stupidity? |
| 1:17.5 | Here are some reasons for the question. |
| 1:20.1 | American high school seniors scores on math and reading tests have fallen to their lowest levels on record. |
| 1:31.3 | Dependence on AI tools erodes critical thinking, harms learning and creativity, and increases isolation and loneliness. |
| 1:37.3 | In addition, research shows that overuse of social media, |
| 1:41.3 | video games, and other digital platforms impairs executive functioning |
| 1:46.5 | skills, including memory, planning, and decision-making. Also, short-form videos have been |
| 1:53.5 | conclusively linked to poorer mental health and cognition, as well, quote-unquote, brain rot, |
| 2:04.8 | has become such an ubiquitous term that Oxford University Press selected it as its 2024 word of the year. Andrew Budson, a Boston University neurologist |
| 2:12.7 | who specializes in memory disorders, explains our problem stating we are using technology for the wrong |
| 2:19.4 | purposes. Dr. Budson reports that our brains evolved for social interactions. As a result, quoting |
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