Neuroscientist Warns That Technology Is Eating Our Brains

For several years 'Lady Greenfield' has been warning of what she sees as the dangers of computers and the internet, as they move out of the office and into people's living rooms, pockets and personal lives. She has written newspaper articles and given elctures about the dangers of the digitial world. She frets, worrying that smartphones and social networks are sucking users into an unsatifying digital facsimile of reality, frying their memories, atrohpinh their social skills and generally rotting their brains. In particular, she emphasis the brain's ability to adapt to stimulu. It is this adaptability that is the source of her claim, often associated with Ms. Greenfield's pronouncements that using the internet cna alter the physical structure of your brain. That sounds scary, but should it? Virtually any experience--reading the morning paper, divorcing your wife--will alter the physical structure of your brain, because such physical alterations, in the form of creating or pruning connections between neurons, are how the brain learns. The brain you go to sleep with every night is the not the same as the brain you woke up with that morning.

Let's try to break this hypothesis down. Oh wait, it's already proven. But who are the test subjects you ask? We are. Growing up and seeing technology trascend into the pockets of every american to whereas children at eight are now playing with iPads instead of sports, or reading through a screen instead of a book. This is only the beginning and I agree with everything Ms. Greenfield has to say about the Future of the World and Technology.