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Do You Worry that Screen-Based Electronics Are Rewiring Your Brain?

Perhaps you should; because they certainly are. But will the changes mean generations plagued with attention disorders and poor social skills or will it boost creativity?

Narrated by Gillian Anderson. Scripted by Nigel Warburton.

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