Maybe the smart phone's hegemony makes perfect evolutionary sense: Humans are tapping a deep urge to seek out information. Our ancient food-foraging survival instinct has evolved into an info-foraging obsession; one that prompts many of us today to constantly check our phones and multitask. Monkey see. Click. Swipe. Reward. A new book, "The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High Tech World," explores the implications of, and brain science behind, this evolution (some might say devolution).
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