Writings

Pat Scannell’s research project began as a single ambitious manuscript exploring both historical thought and contemporary disruptions in technology and thinking, but evolved into four separate books

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The Disruption of Thought

Lays out a new(ish) model of human thought that explains thinking as an emergent property arising from meta-modular connections across three planes – biological, cultural, and technological…

The Great Irony of Technology

Premise is the observation that technology has left most people in the US significantly better off than 20, 50, or 100 years ago, but paradoxically feeling worse…

The History of Thought Book 1

An academic book resulting from 10+ years research into the effects of technology on cognitive evolution of humanity’s primate ancestors…

The History of Thought Book 2

An academic book based on research into the effects of technology on human thought…