Elena Sanz has been a science journalist for fifteen years, both in digital and print media. He has worked for El País, MUY Interesante, El Mundo, Tercer Milenio, the McGraw-Hill publishing house and La Sexta, obtaining awards such as the Boehringer Ingelheim Prize for journalism in medicine or the Prism of the House of Sciences for the best popular article . And she is absolutely convinced that science is ubiquitous and helps to better understand economics, art, gastronomy, cinema or music.
“We receive a lot of information but we don’t have time to process it with a critical attitude,” Elena told us. “The saturation of information means that, on the one hand, we stay with the headlines, we don’t spend much time digging deeper and, on the other, we are very dispersed, with the consequent loss of analytical capacity. That is why hoaxes spread much more easily. “.
Are we more informed citizens or more vulnerable to manipulation?
“We have a lot of accessible knowledge, but informed, informed, I don’t think we are. Today there is more information available than ever, but our brain is somehow emptier, because we leave the responsibility of remembering data, for example, in the hands of Google . We no longer even have to remember the birthdays of friends, there are apps or social networks that take care of it. The problem is that if we do not have internal data … how can we be able to reason or analyze? We have outsourced all our memory and information, and I think that’s negative . “
Along with Elena Sanz’s talk at Homo Curiosus, the documentary Cerebro saturado has been screened.
Saturated brain
Information and communication technologies have transformed our societies. The torrent of digital data, which constantly requests our attention, has an impact on our lives and on our brain, and is at the origin of cognitive overload and stress, mainly in the world of work. Research to measure these effects has only just begun. What are the solutions to deal with this exponentially growing flow? How is it possible that the digital world has completely changed our personal and professional universe? Are we still in time to claim our right to disconnect?
