This is a condition in which people cannot maintain psychological contact for a long time.
The dependence of modern young people on the consumption of digital content threatens humanity with intellectual degradation and a kind of division into smart and stupid. Such conclusions of the scientific study were cited by the head of the laboratory of neurosciences and human behavior of Sberbank, president of the Higher School of Methodology Andrei Kurpatov, who spoke at a business breakfast of Sberbank at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
“When you consume content all the time, you [in your brain] have an active central performing network. This means that energy does not flow to those parts of the brain that are responsible for thinking. Essentially, the brain goes into hibernation. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that people who rarely crawl out of Twitter and Instagram rarely turn on their heads,”he says.
According to a study cited by Kurpatov, 40% of children under the age of 10 in the United States and Russia are almost constantly online. By adolescence, this figure rises to almost 70%. In this case, the brain takes an average of 23 minutes to turn on thinking. But, according to the study, in 2018, the average person was interrupted in real life for only 15 minutes.
“As a result, what we have now is essentially a digital autism epidemic. This is a condition in which young people cannot maintain psychological contact for a long time, "Kurpatov said. According to him, this tendency leads not only to the fact that the world is divided into rich and poor, "but also into stupid and smart."
According to another study, contact with a smartphone or other gadget for more than two to three hours increases depression and suicidal thoughts. At the same time, the smartphone affects the cognitive abilities of a person even when it is simply next to a person, scientists have found. “You have more RAM and more mental mobility when your smartphone is in a different room than on a table nearby. And vice versa, you become stupid when your smartphone is next to you,”said Kurpatov, demonstrating the research infographic.