The Comparative Truth

<p>Episode 1 — Is Technology Destroying Our Attention Span?</p><p>Every generation seems to have a technology that's supposedly ruining our minds.</p><p>Today, it's smartphones, notifications, and short-form video. But decades before TikTok, television was accused of destroying children's attention spans—and comic books were blamed for corrupting an entire generation.</p><p>In the first episode of The Comparative Truth, Ryan examines what modern research actually tells us about attention, then travels back through earlier fears surrounding television and comic books.</p><p>Were those earlier warnings justified? And is today's technology simply the latest moral panic—or has...