According to University of California, Irvine psychologist Gloria Mark, our average human attention span has shrunk to 47 seconds due in large part to the rise of smartphones, social media, and the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine how human-AI collaborations are ...
“Brain rot,” Oxford’s Word of the Year in 2024, refers to both the mental degradation from consuming too much unchallenging or trivial content online and to the content itself. Even though “brain rot” ...
From its humble beginnings as YouTube content like skibidi toilet to the more exotic Italian iterations exemplified by TikTok’s Ballerina Cappuccina and Tralalero Tralala, brain rot has entered the ...
Dr. Heitmayer is an assistant professor at Rowan University who studies technology distraction, attention economics and digital culture. Every decade or so, adults discover that young people are ...