i-Minds - Second Edition

How and Why Constant Connectivity Is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About It

By: Mari K. Swingle

Narrated by: Lisa Bunting

An entertaining, scientifically rigorous exploration of the social and biological effects of our wireless world.

The way we use technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also rewire our brains to feel restless, disconnected, unable to sleep, anxious, and depressed, with new illnesses like FOMO (fear of missing out) and electro-sensitivities appearing.

Engaging and entertaining yet scientifically rigorous, this fully revised and updated second edition of i-Minds comprehensively explores an era of screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering it as both godsend and plague. Addressing theory, popular media, and industry hype, i-Minds demonstrates:

• How constant connectivity is changing our brains
• The dangers of unchecked connectivity
• Positive steps to embrace new technologies while protecting our well-being and steering our future in a more human direction

i-Minds is a must-listen for anyone interested in fostering health and happiness or who is struggling with the role of screened technology in our lives.

©2019 Mari Swingle (P)2020 New Society Publishers

First to Review, which is Truly Sad

I always wondered why I felt so damn miserable in the modern day and listened to plenty of books about the subject, but this one right here takes a lot of current issues, the majority hyper-politicized and causing social unrest and it answers a lot of that within the book.
Pair this with Status Anxiety, Mating in Captivity, Bowling Alone, The Second Mountain, and others and you have a solid blueprint for navigating the modern day, plugging the gaps as you traverse!!!

The author’s biased political opinion is in plain sight🤦‍♀️

Started off awesome and certainly lesrned a lot until the last 6 hours when she got on her pulpit of moral superiority and gave “her” expert opinion on politics in the 🇺🇸 (she’s Canadian) and made the exact same mistake she was warning us of (how i-tech manipulates us!!!!🤷‍♀️) If she had stuck to her expertise (which she has a lot of) and stayed in her lane using examples of ordinary people and how they have been affected by i tecnology, I would have given her 5 ⭐️ in everything, but when you switch gears and start spouting idealogy and give examples of Trump, Hillary Clinton moments that have since been proven the opposite of whst was said, it just made me tune out. And her ideology of immigration and other political issues she has an opinion about but isn’t an expert on. At 1st I decided to look for another book that would not make me feel “less” or “worse” as a human being for having anotjer opinion. However, I wanted to learn, about how i tech has influenced humanity (not to be told that having a “conservative” point of view is “narrow”! ) so I just skipped to future chapters hoping she would get off her soap box and back to the topic at hand. Who is this author to judge people based on conservative or liberal opinions? both are valid & valuable and some of us, I include myself have both. Especially since her area of expertise is PSYCHOLOGY?? I highly recommend the 1st part of this book (having to do with her patients) great stuff! But leave cybersecurity to the real experts and politics to the reader, each has their own personal point of view and needs to be respected. Would be happy to discuss my views in person, but to be lectured to is not why i but books. I buy them to learn & and be inspired. She managed in part to do this, but in general terms, sadly fell short of the mark.