There’s a word that keeps popping up in “Screened Out,” Jon Hyatt’s must-see documentary about screen addiction in the age of mobile technology. The word is dopamine. That’s the n…
,” Jon Hyatt’s must-see documentary about screen addiction in the age of mobile technology. The word is. That’s the neurotransmitter that sends signals to other cells, along pathways linked to pleasure and reward-motivated behavior. The idea that smartphones trigger our pleasure centers isn’t news, but “Screened Out” is all about the ways that the devices have beento do that very thing. That’s why we’re addicted to them. That’s why they’re rewiring our brains.
“Here’s a movie that was made for the pandemic, because we’re all trapped at home now, mediating the world through our screens.” The director, Jon Hyatt, confesses to his own screen addiction , and then, in the midst of trying to change those habits, he goes off to talk to a vibrant array of authors, pundits, and reformed tech wizards who lay out how the world as we know it came into being. What we’re addicted to, they say, is a system of “intermittent rewards” analogous to the jones fed by slot machines. Decades ago, the behavior-mod guru B.F.
At an Axios event in November 2017, Sean Parker, the former president of Facebook, gave a rare candid interview in which he came clean about how the tech companies manipulated us into becoming addicted to their products. We see him onstage, talking about how the new world was calculated “to give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a post or a photo or whatever…It’s a social-validation feedback loop.
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