{"product_id":"intelligence-in-the-digital-age-9781475854572","title":"Intelligence in the Digital Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntelligence in the Digital Age examines how our current Internet age and people's use of digital technologies may be affecting their mental capacities and emotive lives in ways in which it will become increasingly difficult for those people to explore a larger, more expansive consciousness.After beginning with an examination of how people's attention spans, working memories, and capacity for deep thought and reading are being imperiled by their addictive use of smart phones and PCs, the discussion continues with how this may be occurring at a deep level at which the brain creates short and long-term memories, pays attention, and thinks creatively. The book then explores how these negative effects may impede the search to explore the limits of one's thinking mind and memories in pursuit of a larger intelligence. People may have fewer opportunities to be successful in this pursuit simply because they will have lost access to important personal dynamics due to the effects of the digital \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Intelligence in the Digital Age, Lyn Lesch offers a thoughtful, and thought-provoking, meditation on how our digital devices are affecting our memory, attention, creativity, and freedom. -- Susan Matt, Presidential Distinguished Professor of History, Weber State University and co-author of the book “Bored, Lonely, Angry, and Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter”\u003cbr\u003eIntelligence in the Digital Age describes the profound changes that digital technologies are having on our basic capacities for attention, intelligence, creativity, and human relationship. Lyn Lesch reviews a wide range of research that documents the deleterious effects of the constant flow of fragmented information. This is a vitally important book for educators, psychologists, parents, and every informed citizen. -- David Edmund Moody, former director of the Oak Grove School and author of the book “An Uncommon Collaboration: David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents Acknowledgments  Chapter 1. The Search for Something Larger in a New Age  Chapter 2. Digital Minds  Chapter 3. Habituated to Addiction  Chapter 4. Thought, Memory, and Reality  Chapter 5. A Distracted Awareness and the River of Thought  Chapter 6. Creative Thought and the Digital Barrier  Chapter 7. Art and Culture in the Digital Age  Chapter 8. Insight, Art, and a Higher Awareness  Chapter 9. Space and Time in the Digital World  Chapter 10. The Meaning of Freedom in the Digital Age  Chapter 11. Consciousness in Cyberspace  Appendix  Bibliography","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040311181655,"sku":"9781475854572","price":43.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475854572.jpg?v=1750946338","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intelligence-in-the-digital-age-9781475854572","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}