Here is the quick quiz to decide:-
When was the last time you ….
a) Wrote a letter by hand;
b) Used a street directory or other paper map;
c) Multiplied or Divide two large numbers in your head;
d) Memorized a phone number that Except your own.
Nah! you don’t or done a few of them. So there is a simple reason:Technology means we hardly ever need to do things by our own. Almost every single person carries a smartphone in their pocket,skills that society once considered essential have become redundant.
You can look at this by two ways. One is that outsourcing the humdrum tasks of day-to-day life has steal our creativity and made superficially impossible possible. The second one is that technology(gadgets) are eating our brains and making us foolishly dependent.as in the American tourist who last week took a six-hour detour through the Icelandic wilderness after incorrectly programming his GPS.
Neuroscientist Penelope McNulty is a daily witness to the adaptability of the human brain.she works on stroke patients she sees brains resire themselves to cope with damage, and she has a doubts that technological change is pushing us in new directions.
“We know it’s affecting people,” said by her. “For example, we have small memory and that’s why we remember small chunks of things. Think that 20 years ago how many phone numbers you remember and now, just your own.We just don’t need to any more. we know how to find the information faster then we ever used to.
“The lack of writing is reflective of our lack of clarity of communication,” said by her. Now communication is too easy. Handwriting is hard and forces you to stops and think a bit then write again. Bad or poor handwriting is a lack of consideration.
“When you write cursive you are wanting to connect with people’s minds at a deeper level, and as a society we don’t want to do that any more.”
