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We Have Concerns

The Case for Digital Dementia

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A new study has found that storing important information in a digital device frees up the mind to remember other, less important details — which otherwise would be crowded out by the important stuff. It suggests that tech might be improving our memories, contrary to the popular notion that tech is giving us all “digital dementia.” Anthony and Jeff discuss whether this data changes their opinions about how devices are impacting human memory, and how new technology can make things even better.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's been a good week for games. It's been a bad week for getting anything else done in my life, but it's been a good week for games. I'll tell you that. This is we have concerns.

0:21.1

Hi, Jeff Canada.

0:22.1

I have the decarbonie. Hello, concerned citizens. Jeff, we talk about it all the time and there is a term for it now that I truly, truly love digital crime.

0:36.1

It's called crime and we're going to start doing it. We're going to do it more and more. Here's the thing. They call it crime. I call it

0:44.2

it even in the odds. I call it. I call it hustle. You know, I just call it hustle. I call it a sigma grind set. That's what I call it.

0:55.9

That's right. This is a man of sphere podcasts now.

0:59.4

Uh oh, no, no, no. What are they call it? Anthony? Do crimes against the government. Don't do crimes against other people.

1:07.5

We do not officially we do not officially endorse crime, but like do crimes.

1:13.9

But like if you're going to do crimes against the entrenched power structure, sure, do some crimes. Do a little bit. Hey, have a little bit of crime as a treat. No, the, um, the thing that I'm talking about, Jeff, digital dementia.

1:30.5

Yeah. Oh, digital dementia. Yeah. It's a good. That's album. That was a good one. That was a good 1987's digital dementia.

1:44.9

Have you seen it? You know, dementia. I don't know. I calm down. Dave Mustaine. Um, yeah, guess. Guess what it is. Okay. I'm going to guess. So I'll pass that digital dementia.

1:58.1

Uh, dementia, of course, um, you know, this, this, uh, failing of the mind, uh, inability to, uh, to remember things.

2:06.8

Uh, maybe brought on by using devices, uh, I pull out my phone. I don't remember why I did. I pulled out my phone in the first place.

2:18.2

Well, that's certainly part of it. But I can, I can, I can look for any object and not know why I was looking for it. Just 30 seconds ago. That's, that's my

2:28.0

blessing in my curse. Yeah. That's my secret cap. I'm always confused. I, digital dementia is something that we, we have been sort of talking about since the beginning of this podcast. And it's something that we have a lot of interest in, which is

2:44.5

our smart devices is the internet making a stupider making a smarter dumber. Is it helping or hindering our memory memory?

2:53.8

Right. In particular. Uh, and this is a story that was, uh, sent to us on the discord. You can get access to that discord for just a buck a month.

3:04.8

It had to patreon.com slash we have concerns to find out how, uh, it was sent to us by a old synergy himself.

3:13.1

Z synergy Mansfield.

3:14.9

I love it. Uh, he always given, given good story, given the good stories. Uh, and this is a study that was just published in the journal of experimental psychology.

3:26.7

Uh, let my subscription lapse. Yeah. I had to decide between, uh, the journal of experimental psychology or a Ranger Rick.

3:36.0

And I like to do the puzzles where I pick what's different between the two pictures. Yeah. So I went with Ranger Rick.

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