A Technological Assault on the Human Brain

By Dr. Ely Lazar & Dr. Adele Thomas

[Republished here by permission of the authors from their “Lifestyle Tips for Over 50s,” affiliated with their website “Passionate Retirees,” January 2, 2019.]

Five decades ago I read a book with the title As A Man Thinketh. The phrase that stood out for me was, “As a man (woman) thinketh in his (her) heart so is he (she)”. The concept in the statement is that your dominant thoughts tend to reveal where your life is going. What you focus on will demonstrate your purpose in life. There is a lot of truth to this principle. Today our focus is so inextricably linked to technology that there are disturbing new developments in what is happening to our brains.