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Is Technology Rewiring Our Brains?

Posted December 11, 2008 9:24 AM

From Discovery News - Human Interest:

What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people? These sound like concerns from worried parents. But they're coming from brain scientists. While violent video games have gotten a lot of public attention, some current concerns go well beyond that. Some scientists think the wired world may be changing the way we read, learn and interact with each other.

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Re: Is Technology Rewiring Our Brains?

12/11/2008 9:44 AM

Of course I belive this will change our teenages' brains and thinking method.

The internet may become a new "brain", the net wires are the new nerve. And people will become the cells.

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12/11/2008 5:08 PM

I think they'll revert back to Amoeba.

You don't use it, you lose it.

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12/12/2008 3:18 PM

Of course,

Near Everyone is already only aware of one file structure, that created by Microsoft.

And near all people and particularly kids are thinking in that way. I am curious, if researchers have tested brains to find non similarities in computer users and non computer users.

Just an obsevation...

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