It makes sense.
The way we gather and take in information has changed drastically over the last decades. If you wanted to learn something, it used to be that you grabbed an encyclopedia out of your book case or if you didn’t have one, you went to the library. Now all you need is the Internet.
So it makes sense that with those dramatic changes in how we find information, the way we process it has changed too.
How the Internet Affects Our Brains
This video makes an interesting point, namely that we learn less because the information stored in our short term memory isn’t transferred to our long term memory because we are distracted by the digital information overload that surrounds us. An interesting point and certainly one that seems to make sense.
Yet it’s not as crystal clear as this video suggests, scientific findings so far may have confirmed that we’re not as good at multitasking as we think, but that doesn’t mean all the other claims are true as well. The New York Times has published some interesting articles about this, describing the problems of Internet addiction and how this has damaged our ability to focus. But they also show arguments that the Internet is actually making us smarter, thereby giving a voice to the other side of the aisle.
In short: it’s an interesting discussion to follow.
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What do you think, has the Internet negatively affected our brains?
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