Dr. Robert Waldinger

There's so much money that's being made by capturing and holding our attention.

And it's amoral.

They don't care what they capture and hold it with, right?

They just want to capture it.

What did your study show when we hit the digital age?

Well, we haven't shown much yet because our generations were the, um,

the world war ii generation and they're still trying to figure out how to turn on their phones right i mean they really are though we joke with them they they joke with us like we we wanted to do an online survey with them and they said we can't do that and then then the really yeah they just said no we're not going to do that send us another paper questionnaire and then the um

The baby boomers, the second generation.

Which is how old?

They're 60s, right?

So those are often people too who find computers hard to work with.

Very different from digital natives.

We have not studied digital natives.

So I can't say from my research what that shows.

Oh, God.

I mean, I live in the United States, right?

I don't know what to say.

I mean, okay, I'm just going to tell you this.

In my world, I'm very optimistic about the future.

In the world of the people I work with, the people I care about, the things I'm involved in, I'm really optimistic.