ADHD may have evolved because symptoms such as impulsivity helped foragers in hunter-gather communities know when to cut their losses and quickly move on to new areas when food sources were low. https://t.co/8mVPam57s5
“I think that Orwell couldn’t imagine how you could become so habituated to being surveilled that you would go about your life and you would just accept it.”
Sandra Newman, author of a new take on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Julia, on how attitudes to surveillance have changed since Orwell dreamed up the all-knowing Big Brother.
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