Parr: Society will treat digital distraction as an environmental crisis like obesity
Sam Parr · Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction · Feb 18, 2026 · at 48:43
Sam Parr discusses digital distraction and cognitive focus, comparing tech addiction to ultra-processed food and obesity.
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“So my prediction is that we are going to look at this problem the same way we look at obesity. We're gonna, like, look at this stuff, and we're gonna say, there are some people who can just put it down and just walk away. You know, there are some people like, well, just stop. Just don't do it. It's like, well, but, like, This processed food is, like, addicting, and it triggers something in my brain, and it makes it almost impossible. So I think that what we're gonna see is that this is gonna shift from what it is now to, like, either we ignore it, or we think it's just, like, a small problem to, it's an environmental problem, and there has to be changes”
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