DIGITAL BRAIN - A SURROGATE FOR HUMAN BRAINS

Technology has been redeemed our life with so many of its unique and peerless gifts. Many of us have become so much dependent on modern technology that we can’t even do a simplest job without the use of it. Thus these devices are becoming part of our intelligence and many of the scientists call those modern devices as “digital brain”, can be called human brain’s replacement. 

HUMAN BRAIN ADOPTS TECHNOLOGY AS MEMORY SUBSTITUTE

Researchers have tested a number of experiments to find the relationship between technology and human brain. Obtained results showed the extent of dependency of human brain in advanced technology. 

Researcher have noted internet as the most popular substitution for our memory. According to an online research paper published in Science Express, the researchers offered a number of students to participate in a test with some trivia questions. They purveyed the subjects with both the answers and maps of PC folders where they can find the answers. Most of them were capable to memorize the location of answers rather than memorizing the answers. The study ensues that we don’t bother to remember necessary information when we know that the info are available online whenever we look up for them. This dependency on internet is gradually reducing our capacity to remember useful information.

SIM cards are considered another substitution for human brain. Remember our past days when we could memorize every urgent phone numbers? Now do we keep in mind them? You may reply to this question by re-questioning me- “Seriously dude! Do we require it actually?” SIM card is working as substitute and saves a lot of telephone numbers so that we don’t have to memorize them or look up for them in diaries and directories. Other so called digital brains are memory sticks and flash cards. We can store snaps of important events on those.

THis is your time to ADOPT the “NEW TECHNOLOGY”. KNow something new about newest technologies.

Yesterday I asked my cousin (who is a high-Schooled) about the atomic number of nitrogen, just to test her knowledge on these you know. She first gave me a blank look, and then grabbed her android to look for the answer. Yes Google, Yahoo and other search engines can be supporter to answer all our questions. But do we need to depend on our digital brain that much?

ARE WE GETTING DUMBER?

The advancement of technology is chipping away the want for human to think for themselves. Intelligence is simply the power to adjust in any environment. Can you realize the problem associated with our dependency on modern devices and not using our intelligence? OK, try to visualize this- you are in the middle of an unknown place and using your GPS to reach your destined way. Now if power failure occurs all of a sudden on your android, or  the GPS system fails, then just think about the disastrous situation you may fell in. Now if you could simply memorize the map then such situation would never have occurred.

Even though advanced technology have reduced our problems and acts as blessings in our lives, we should not be way too dependable on it and must have ability to spell, count, think critically and memorize important things and not just save them on cell phones. Make proper use of your human brain; never let yourself flow away with the streams of digital brain.