By mentally acting these things
out in the calmness of supposed
boredom-thought, the individual
can dissect and learn from the
past and decide how to apply that
knowledge to the future. “It’s a lot
like time travel that happens when
we’re in the default mode, a lot of
problem-solving, and it’s the place
where the most original creative
thinking happens,” Zomorodi said.
“The research (in what smartphones are actually doing to the
brain) is incredibly preliminary,”
Zomorodi added. “This worried
me because, by the time researchers would know this, and what im-
pact that would have had on the
good stuff that’s supposed to be
happening in the brain, I will have
been looking on my phone for
over a decade!”
Having a constant companion to
fill in those voids of time can be
complicating and distracting. Th