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Episode 6: Body Clock, Technology and Today’s Youth
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Fresh back from Apple’s annual WWDC, Drs. Haroon, Sohaib and Royan discuss “technology addiction” and its impact on today’s youth. Is this the epidemic that some psychologists fear it is? Hear our views of the pros and cons of today’s “attention economy”.
Transcript
Dr. Haroon Kazem: Hey guys, thanks for joining us on another episode of the Body Clock Podcast presented to you by Owaves. I am Dr. Haroon and I’m joined remotely by doctors Royan and Dr. Sohaib. We have an awesome episode lined up for you guys today. We’re going to be diving into the effects of technology on kids and how it affects their body clocks. We have some pretty cool studies that we wanted to kind of dive into and discuss a bit and hopefully you’ll enjoy the show. Royan, did you want to touch on that that story that you shared with us this week or the article.
Dr. Royan Kamyar: The Medium article.
Dr. Haroon Kazem: Yeah. So last week, or last episode I should say, we left off with talking about the impact, the potential impacts and current impact of technology addiction on the next generation, right? Specifically, the youngsters our kids, nephews, and nieces. What’s going to happen to them? They’re carrying around an iPhone 24/7 and stuck on social media.
So that was a question Sohaib had posted, they had an interesting discussion at Harvard Business School in a forum on the topic and that Medium article I circulated, which we should put in the podcast, was written by a psychologist. And he was essentially directly attacking the technology community, specifically Silicon Valley for purposely introducing addictive techniques into their software in order to intentionally put people onto their platforms. Literally only thinking about the competitive aspects of what they were doing, only think about bottom line. The fear now is that it has really grown into a monster and at least this specifically.
Dr. Haroon Kazem: Cool.
Dr. Royan Kamyar: And the title,if you guys can remind me was pretty harsh.
Dr. Haroon Kazem: I believe the title of the article was The Tech Industry’s War on Kids. And for those that are listening that aren’t aware, I think it is B.J. Fogg specifically, right? At Stanford?
Dr. Royan Kamyar: He was definitely highlighting B.J. Fogg’s role because you know he is sort of a godfather for the Instagram founders and Nir Eyal, who wrote the book Hooked, went to his classes at Stanford. You know he was initially labeled as a persuasive computer scientist or persuasive technologist.
But now is more labeling himself as a behavioral designer and definitely instilling more ethics into his curriculum and because of these issues but I don’t think it’s fair to target B.J. Fogg specifically which is what this article did and probably how he was able to get more buzz around it. You know because B.J. Fogg has such a big name. But basically, what the author was doing-and we should have that in front of us too.-What’s his name.
Dr. Haroon Kazem: His name was Richard Freed. He’s a child and adolescent psychologist. He’s the author of Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age.
Dr. Sohaib Imtiaz: Before we go into the article,
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Fresh back from Apple’s annual WWDC, Drs. Haroon, Sohaib and Royan discuss “technology addiction” and its impact on today’s youth. Is this the epidemic that some psychologists fear it is? Hear our views of the pros and cons of today’s “attention economy”.
Transcript
Dr. Haroon Kazem: Hey guys, thanks for joining us on another episode of the Body Clock Podcast presented to you by Owaves. I am Dr. Haroon and I’m joined remotely by doctors Royan and Dr. Sohaib. We have an awesome episode lined up for you guys today. We’re going to be diving into the effects of technology on kids and how it affects their body clocks. We have some pretty cool studies that we wanted to kind of dive into and discuss a bit and hopefully you’ll enjoy the show. Royan, did you want to touch on that that story that you shared with us this week or the article.
Dr. Royan Kamyar: The Medium article.
Dr. Haroon Kazem: Yeah. So last week, or last episode I should say, we left off with talking about the impact, the potential impacts and current impact of technology addiction on the next generation, right? Specifically, the youngsters our kids, nephews, and nieces. What’s going to happen to them? They’re carrying around an iPhone 24/7 and stuck on social media.
So that was a question Sohaib had posted, they had an interesting discussion at Harvard Business School in a forum on the topic and that Medium article I circulated, which we should put in the podcast, was written by a psychologist. And he was essentially directly attacking the technology community, specifically Silicon Valley for purposely introducing addictive techniques into their software in order to intentionally put people onto their platforms. Literally only thinking about the competitive aspects of what they were doing, only think about bottom line. The fear now is that it has really grown into a monster and at least this specifically.
Dr. Haroon Kazem: Cool.
Dr. Royan Kamyar: And the title,if you guys can remind me was pretty harsh.
Dr. Haroon Kazem: I believe the title of the article was The Tech Industry’s War on Kids. And for those that are listening that aren’t aware, I think it is B.J. Fogg specifically, right? At Stanford?
Dr. Royan Kamyar: He was definitely highlighting B.J. Fogg’s role because you know he is sort of a godfather for the Instagram founders and Nir Eyal, who wrote the book Hooked, went to his classes at Stanford. You know he was initially labeled as a persuasive computer scientist or persuasive technologist.
But now is more labeling himself as a behavioral designer and definitely instilling more ethics into his curriculum and because of these issues but I don’t think it’s fair to target B.J. Fogg specifically which is what this article did and probably how he was able to get more buzz around it. You know because B.J. Fogg has such a big name. But basically, what the author was doing-and we should have that in front of us too.-What’s his name.
Dr. Haroon Kazem: His name was Richard Freed. He’s a child and adolescent psychologist. He’s the author of Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age.
Dr. Sohaib Imtiaz: Before we go into the article,