The smartphone is quickly becoming an extension of the human brain. Technology is good but we risk having our brains become vestigial organs. Research on technological tools including smart phones, suggests that offloading our mental functions to these electronic devices could cause our brains to go soft and even induce dementia.
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Alcohol is now the main risk factor to dementia in Finland. However the constant use of two languages in Finland postpone the dementia with 4 years. Once upon a time it was also thought that the automobil would consist a danger for the human being.
As long as you know how to use all the functions of a smartphone, your brain is working fine ;-)
You are partly right Bjorn, unlike a decade ago, people could memorize their spouse or children number but now, when they lost their phone without backup, they forget all the numbers. the other is the GPS, when u are given direction to get to a particular place, you pay careful attention in order to retract your way back but now, with the GPS, people can drive or go anywhere and sometimes get lost when the battery of the phone go off. The others are playing games etc
I think this is a Luddite's question. I feel technology has increased my capacity rather than diminished it.
Smart phones have only changed the things that we think about. We are now thinking "bigger thoughts" as it were. One example is math class in grade school: In my day (1970's grade school) we memorized multiplication tables and learned how to do square roots...by hand. Now grade schools are teaching calculus and diff Q's. These kids will solve problems that my generation didn't even know existed. True there are some real world pitfalls. Your local store cashier not knowing how to count out change when the electronic cash register fails for example.
Funny that people seldom complain that their brain goes soft of alcohol
Well well well, I am not against technology and i am not saying we should turn our back to smart phones and yes, alcohol is bad. The issue is avoiding to be addicted to smart phone to the extend that ones day is goes bad without it.
Your brain is no different than rest of the muscles in your body--you either use it or you lose it. You utilize the gym to stimulate the growth of muscle cells, just as you use a brain fitness program to increase connections in your brain. How much and what type of mental activity do we need to do to reduce your risk of dementia? The research evidence to date suggests that any activity that involves thinking and learning may be beneficial for brain health and protecting against dementia. The evidence also suggests that greater benefit comes from more complex and challenging mental activities. The more brain activities you do, the more frequently you do them, and the more complex the activity, the lower your risk of dementia is likely to be.
Just as some people can not leave a day without taking alcohol, or smoking, or drinking coffee, there are some who can not leave happy without their smart phone and if this is so, then you are addicted to smart phone and this may not be good for your brain.
Learning a new language such as Hebrew is supposed to prevent your dementia to develop (= you use items of your brain you did not use before)
Our brain is very very big, does not have to move anywhere, room is there enough, some claim that we use 10% of our capacity
We can prevent smartphone usage from taking over the function of our memory by moderation and by manipulating smartphones smartly as using visual memory to learn something or by stocking information in one place so you will return to it whenever you forget it , this way you won 't need to search in different websites or references to look it. By using GPS we can go whenever we want but we shouldn't use everytime we go to the same place we can use our memory .To go to work at time, we can set the alarm at a specific hour, our body will get used to it so we won't need the alarm later, to organize our schedule we can memorize few staffs to do for ex and write the others in our agenda. This way we won't be addicted to using technology to live but to help our brain when forgetting.
will reply with a curious question, I'm afraid. is there any credible research based on valid evidence that proves that excessive smart phone usage inhibits memory storage of human-brain?
Yes! Asli, there are a lot and you can Google it and get some credible resources.
To prevent smartphone usage from taking over our memory or brain functions we probably should regulate the use of it in terms of quality and quantity, especially in young people. We should not expose children to the usage of tablets or smartphones too early in order to let their brain develop normally. Interesting topic, it would need to be studied more. Are you doing any research about it?
Now that I am past 3/4 of a century, I am not averse to having a phone with a better memory than mine. It has games that serve as mental exercises and functions to remind me. I put it down somewhere ...
Email ,smart phone ,calculate ,computer,& other electronic devices are to be considered as a blessing for us .But to me at what cost first & foremost damage is done to the school going children up to the period of 8 years .
They are depending on such devices in the beginning of study career with the result that even for small calculation also such children using such devices .With the result the thinking of mind process becomes dependent on such devices .
If the boys & girls of their tender age do not become careful & if they come under the influence of wrong company it is very likely that it may affect their career ,development & moral course of life in future.
Our mind should remain it require inner nourishment food for thought & thinking & even with utility all of such devices human beings have to be careful for the importance of their life ,mind,& inner energy force of power which can become our life fruitful for the gift of our arrival.
This can be achieved by reading taking the recourse of religion,philosophy ,& the power of our mind with the practice of our breathing ,music,painting ,& such other related activities s of the life which will certainly help our mind in the creative process of our development & to prepare in worthy mode of life.
This is my personal opinion
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