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The Internet is rewiring our brains, this article says
Scary but important article about the downside of constant internet use...
plenty of people's brains have long since been rewired by their enthusiastic use of the internet.
Date: 8/26/2013 12:59:07 AM ( 11 y ) ... viewed 887 times Why we need Nature's Original Technology
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THINKING INSIDE THE BOX--The Effects of the Internet on the Brain
e also fears that texting and instant messaging may already be dampening human creativity, because "we're not thinking outside the box, by ourselves – we're constantly vetting all our new ideas with our friends." He warns that multitasking – surely the internet's essential modus operandi – is "not an efficient way to do things: we make far more errors, and there's a tendency to do things faster, but sloppier." Of late, he has been working with big US corporations – Boeing is the latest example – on how they might get to grips with the effects of online saturation on their younger employees, and reacquaint them with the offline world.
When I ask him how I might stop the internet's more malign effects on my own brain, he sounds slightly more optimistic than Carr: we have the capacity to pull ourselves back from the mental brink – though only if we know what's at stake. "The brain can right itself if we're aware of these issues," he says. "But we have to make decisions as to what we can do about it. Try to balance online time with offline time," he tells me. "What's happening is, we're losing the circadian rhythms we're used to; you go to work, you come home, you spend time talking with your kids."
What about the idea of calming down when you're online? I'm actually pretty good at offline time, but as soon as I'm back at my desk, it's all YouTube and compulsive email checking, and it's rather doing my head in.
"It's hard," he says. "There's a pull. The internet lures us. Our brains become addicted to it. And we have to be aware of that, and not let it control us."
Among the people with walk-on roles in The Shallows is Scott Karp, the editor of a renowned American digital media blog called Publish2, whose reading habits are held up as proof of the fact that plenty of people's brains have long since been rewired by their enthusiastic use of the internet.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/aug/20/internet-altering-your-mind
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
NATURE'S ORIGINAL TECHNOLOGY VS COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
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in the center is the 2011 Art, Organic Uprising. Once a year I gift an artwork to the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. This is goes with the Art.
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