Long Term Effects Of Technology On Human Brain

The effects of modern day technology and inventions on the human brain have shown many pros and cons to the way the human mind works. Technology is one of such human inventions that has created this dazzling new research and effect on the mind. While this can be a good thing and is interesting to learn about, the long term effects of newfound technologies on the human brain will have negative effects on how we receive stimuli and perceive information. This can be shown by the loss of complex thoughts or the difficulty with which it becomes to perceive deep concepts, the inability to remain focused on one thing for a long period of time, and loss of memory retention. Technology is a bad influence on the human mind due to the inability to think

Source three’s “attached to Technology and Paying a Price” by Matt Richtel states “Scientists say… our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.” This is stating that the time spent and used on technology reduces cognitive functioning such as ability to focus. It also states in source two “Is Google Making Us Stupid” where it states that by using technology human beings become “scatterbrained”, meaning that human beings become inattentive and forgetful usually caused by a lack of focus on a topic or the current situation. It states again in article three that a man named Kord Campbell, almost lost a one point three million dollar deal for a website he created due to not seeing the email sent to him with the details. This was due to him being “scatterbrained” and not being focused which was caused by technology. This shows how technology under minds the functions of the human

It is stated in source one “Social Media as Community,” “We no longer lose social ties over our lives; we have Facebook friends forever.” This shows that despite the utility of things in technology such as social media on the internet it has also become an inhibitor and does things for us the negatively impacts our minds, this being the ability to remember things. It also states in source three that after using technology for a period of time or the internet, that peoples thinking becomes fractured, meaning that it becomes harder for to think or remember things and for period of time. It specifies in article two that technology and the internet cause us to remember less