Jemma Spake
speaker
1,071 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
Jemma Spake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 1.
Appearances
It doesn't have infinite space.
It kind of tosses it away like a t-shirt you don't really wear anymore.
This isn't in season.
We don't need this.
We need space for new clothes.
This isn't because the brain is lazy.
It's because it's incredibly smart and it's good at honing in on what is needed and what is not needed.
The best example I can think of of like an entire skill set being altered by technology, especially in recent history, is the introduction of GPS.
Our ability, and you may not know this, but our ability to create a mental map of our surroundings used to be incredible.
It used to be a whole lot better.
We know this from studies in the early 2000s using taxi drivers, and they had structural differences in their hippocampus, which is the region of the brain involved in spatial memory and spatial mapping.
Even if you weren't navigating thousands of streets a day, even if you weren't a taxi driver, your brain still devoted space to this mental map of your surroundings and your environment.
And it retained it and it added to it based on your experiences.
It was incredible.
When GPS and Google Maps were introduced, arguably incredible technologies.
I...
I still remember what they replaced.
Like, I don't know if you remember these like massive road atlases that you used to have in your car and they kind of always get stained and some of the pages would be like stuck together.
You know, that was the alternative.
It's an incredible technology, but our brains have literally changed their structure and response.
Showing 541–560 of 1,071 · page 28 of 54
← Previous
Next →