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More on Digital Overload - Your brain on Gadgets
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:26 pm
by brian
Recent Fresh Air program on NPR entitled
Digital Overload: Your Brain On Gadgets
The constant stream of information we get through mobile and hand-held devices is changing the way we think. Matt Richtel, a technology writer for The New York Times, explains how the use of digital technology is altering our brains -- and how retreating into nature may reverse the effects.
Ritchel wrote the Pultizer Prize winning series in the Times entiteled
Driven to Distraction
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Re: More on Digital Overload - Your brain on Gadgets
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:57 am
by brian
August 25, 2010: New NY Times series by Matt Richtell called
Your Brain on Computers.
First installment:
Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
COMMENT: Bottom line is TAKE A BREAK.
Make technology work for YOU not you work for technology.
Appartently there’s a mini-dopamine ‘thrill’ we all get when we get pinged, buzzed, messaged, tweeted, whatever.
And so that’s why you feel an incessant need to constantly check you PDA for messages. You need the fix! the buzz!
But give your brain a rest. Put that PDA AWAY!
Schedule a check every hour rather than every minute.
Do it on YOUR time not their time!
See the article for more information.
Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
Re: More on Digital Overload - Your brain on Gadgets
Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:19 pm
by brian
Nov 20, 2010: From the News and Observer
Is technology making us dumb and dumber?
Technology has brought trade-offs. Many people have become beholden to their devices, relying on them for all manner of information from simple to complex. The gadgets have reduced the need to think; after all, help with a decision is a mouse click or cell-phone call away! So remembering is becoming a quaint activity. Businesses and consumers worldwide will spend about $49 billion this year on memory products in part to store birth dates, accounts and anniversaries.
The average American household owns 25 consumer electronics products. Here is how many have what:
- 88% cordless phones
81% DVD players
73% desktop computers
71% cellular phones or PCS phones
49% digital cameras
42% video game systems
33% fax machines
30% notebook or laptop computers
28% audio/video receiver with surround-sound processors
15% MP3 players
9% mobile video or navigation systems
See the full article
Is technology making us dumb and dumber?
Re: More on Digital Overload - Your brain on Gadgets
Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:18 pm
by brian
Nov 21, 2010: NY Times:
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.
Researchers say the lure of these technologies, while it affects adults too, is particularly powerful for young people. The risk, they say, is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
see the full article:
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
Re: More on Digital Overload - Your brain on Gadgets
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:24 am
by brian
Dec 15, 2010:NY Times
One Step Back From the Digital World
- COMMENT: Somewhat common sense, it's something I’ve been practicing for years: The new digital revolution is for YOUR convenience, not your being strapped to work and family and friends 24/7. Put your phone on silent and enjoy some time alone, away, free from interruptions.
See the article
One Step Back From the Digital World
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