SSEL Lecture 6: Age of Mindfulness: Technology as Guide and Mentor?

Agriculture age, industrial age, information age, E-commerce age and the age of robotic manufacturing -- what is next? As technology creates abundance and excess (of food, goods, gadgets, information and new experiences) human wellness increasingly depends on mindfulness. In developed countries human discomfort is already being driven primarily by the mind. Technologies of imaging applied by neuroscientists show that the age of mindfulness is coming. Neuroscience, meditation, yoga and culture will couple with technologies of imaging and processing to allow us to better understand and control our mind wellness. As with the birth of other ages this will cause agonies and opportunities.

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