David Strayerhas known for a long time that there's a restorative power in nature. The University of Utah psychologist is an avid hiker, but his latest research quantifies the benefits of turning off your technology and getting outdoors. After 4 days in the wilderness with no cell phones, laptops or gadgets, people were 50% better at creative problem-solving. On Wednesday, we're rebroadcasting our conversation with Strayer and Stanford's Clifford Nassabout how technology may be rewiring our brains and what we can do about it. (Rebroadcast)
Listen to a selection from Wallace Stegner's Wilderness Letter read by local bookseller Ken Sanders.
Among Clifford Nass' books on our relationship to technology is The Man Who Lied to His Laptop [Indiebound|Amazon]. Professor Nass died on November 2, 2013 in Lake Tahoe. Read his New York Times obituary.
David Strayer is a professor of Cognition and Neural Science at the University of Utah.
