One of his close friends noted that Nietzsche’s writing took on a new forcefulness it felt tighter. The Writing Ball didn’t just rescue Nietzsche’s ability to write, though - it also changed the character of his output. Once he learned to touch type, he could write with his eyes closed. As weird as this thing looks, it was actually the fastest typewriter ever built when it was released, and it saved Nietzsche’s writing career. The act of focusing his eyes on a page while writing gave him horrible headaches, and he started to worry that he’d have to give it up entirely.īut something saved him, and that something was called the Malling-Hansen Writing Ball. And this had a terrible consequence – it made it almost impossible for him to write. In the late 1800’s, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s eyesight began to fail him. So today, let’s explore just how the internet affects our brains - and what we can do to prevent, or reverse, its most harmful changes. Like the clock, the video game, and countless other technologies, the internet quietly changes the structure of our brains as we use it. It turns out this suspicion wasn’t misplaced.
There’s always something new grabbing for my attention. Now, boredom almost never creeps into my life. I also seem to remember spending a decent amount of my time bored when I was a kid. I used to be able to immerse myself in a book and read for hours now, that sort of task seems a lot harder. Over the past few years, I’ve had a sneaking suspicion that my daily internet use was having consequences on the way I think. This can include something as simple as using a clock to something as complex as playing a video game. Essentially, the brain changes its physical configuration in response to the tasks you give it and the stimuli you expose it to. In the last few decades, brain scientists have learned a lot about something called neuroplasticity. However, if your particular set of parental units used the term “warp your brain” instead, they’d have been on the right track. Remember when your parents used to tell you that playing video games would “rot your brain?” Regaining Focus Requires Time and Discipline.The Internet Seizes Your Attention and Scatters It.
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