SCOTT OVERTON

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Since writing new books and all the messy business of publishing doesn’t leave me time to blog very often anymore, here’s another way I hope to share some of the fascinating science (and other) news stories I come across.

A big reason I’m doing this is that Facebook in Canada won’t let us share news links (due to a pouty tiff with our government) and X/Twitter has become a dumpster fire.

It doesn’t make sense for me to rewrite what’s already been well-written in these articles so I’ll just post the links with brief descriptions of the content and you can choose to follow them or not. I hope you will!

October 18, 2025

A GOLDEN AGE OF STUPIDITY?

October 18, 2025/ Scott Overton

Smartphones clamouring for our attention; social media engineered to keep us distracted; Google answering every question faster than we can retrieve it from our memory; and now generative AI doing students’ homework for them. Are we letting our technology turn our brains to mush? New study results are the canary in the coal mine, and we’d better take them seriously. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology