Down The River, Into the Brain: Is technology making us stupid?

Take A Wilderness Trip to find out!

Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain.

Before the hiking and rafting trip, Art Kramer was concerned about a big grant. "Time is slowing down," he says on Day 3.
Photo: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

A couple of professors did a little research leaving their cellphones behind and headed into the wilds where e-mail is inaccessible and laptops would be powerless. It was a trip into the heart of silence!



"Five neuroscientists spent a week in late May in a remote area of southern Utah, a primitive trip with a sophisticated goal: to understand how heavy use of digital devices and other technology changes how we think and behave, and how a retreat into nature might reverse those effects..." Read the New York Times article HERE.