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Top Tech Voices Podcast S2 E1: Mental Health & Technology

JoRatcliffe

It’s time for the first episode of the Top Tech Voices podcast and Dr Jack Lewis shares how technology affects our minds, and how we can use technologies – including AI and virtual reality – to strengthen our minds and improve our lives.

Get comfortable, make a hot drink, and tune in for a conversation covering:

  • Creating a ‘Columbo moment’ when you are pitching something
  • How your smartphone can affect you just by being in your general area or in your peripheral vision
  • Why watching a TV show without multitasking is better for your brain
  • How to use AI as a constructively critical partner to enhance your thinking and avoiding ‘cognitive miserliness’

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  • in reply to Aniket_kumar_raj

    Me too.  They talked so fast I couldn't speed the video up.

  • Ouch! That made my brain hurt.

    A flip-book of informational rabbit warrens it was a challenge to fully process. Any one question was a thinking exercise in itself.

  • in reply to gordonmx

    at least AI summerizer was not involved, else it could have been hard to get actual point

  • Interesting listen. These are things we experience every day and very relevant points. The urge to multitask (whether by intention or distraction) the pull toward things that give unexpected, dopamine-filled outcomes when there’s already a clear task at hand, or juggling multiple screens with entirely different contexts… all of it ends up giving a sense of productivity while actually reducing what gets done.


    It makes me wonder and curious to know your views: As tech becomes more tech, can humans become more aware-human? 
    I think maybe not - because that's how the technology is designed to. To funnel in profits at any cost and continue doing it! It is a very small proportion of people who really think about the cause-effects and work on themselves.

  • in reply to gordonmx

    Now no one is gonna scroll without reading, That text size is too big for my screen

  • in reply to gordonmx

     You mention touch.  I think you are right.  Dr. Lewis mentions "use it or lose it"... Could this be a contributing factor to the mental health challenges people are feeling today?  The subconscious wants that basic connection but societally, we are moving further and further away from it by becoming more "one with our phones" and other electronics.  I might be a bit jaded today because I went to my granddaughter's karate class last night (as my wife and I do every week).  20 adults sitting on the observation bench right beside the mat.  Two of us were not buried in our phones.  The kids watch to see who is watching.  What are we teaching them?

    Two days ago, we looked after the 5-year old grandson and introduced him to Alexa.  He talked to her for about an hour.  Silly stuff, but yesterday while Facetiming him, he wanted to talk to Alexa.  The basic human need of connection is not going to go away.  Who or what will fill that need?  A complicated human or an AI programmed to be "encouraging" - even when it's not the right thing.

    As you state... still too many questions.

  • in reply to kmikemoo
    kmikemoo said:
    The subconscious wants that basic connection but societally, we are moving further and further away from it by becoming more "one with our phones" and other electronics.

    How does that fit in with the likes of two-way radio though ?

    I recall at one time in Australia, home-schooling to remote farms was typically done via two-way radio. 

    Fast-forward to schooling via the likes of Zoom during the pandemic and all of a sudden remote teaching becomes an issue.

  • Using tech to improve mental health is missing the mark on so many levels.

    Sharing your thoughts and how you feel to lifeless silicon devices and code is better than doing nothing. But sharing your state of mind and your mental health and especially non-health with other human beings improves your own situation so much more. Other people are able to empathise and show feelings and understandings towards your situation, devices cannot.