How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds – Nicholas Carr Oct. 6, 2017 12:36 p.m. ET

So you bought the new iPhone. According to the data collected by Apple, if you are like a typical owner you will use your phone 80 times a day to use. This means that you will consult a shiny little rectangle, almost 30,000 times next year. Your new phone will be a reliable fact with your constant colleagues like your old phone - your teacher, secretary, confession, master. Both of them become indivisible

Smartphones are unique in the history of personal technology. We make available gadgets anytime, anywhere. Every day I use it in myriad ways to display apps, display messages, and listen to alerts. Smartphones have become our own repositories that define our thoughts, experiences, and who we are, record and assign words, sounds and images. According to the Gallup investigation in 2015, more than half of iPhone users said that they can not imagine living without equipment.

We really like our mobile phones. It is difficult to imagine that in this convenient form other products provide so many convenient functions. However, although our telephone provides convenience and forwarding, they also cause anxiety. Their extraordinary practicality gave them unprecedented attention and had a great influence on our thoughts and actions. So what will happen to our mind when we allow tools to dominate like our perception and perception?

Scientists began to explore this problem - the problems they found are attractive and annoying. In addition to shaping our ideas deeply and complexly, our mobile phones will continue to work without using these devices. Studies have shown that intelligence weakens as brains rely on technology.

Adrian Ward, a cognitive psychologist and marketing professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has studied the impact of smartphone and the Internet on our thinking and judgment for 10 years. In his own work and the work of other people, he said that using smartphones causes some kind of interference, even when hearing rings and vibrations, evidence that it is difficult to concentrate on difficult problems and work solutions I have seen more and more. . Distracting attention interferes with reasoning and performance

In the 2015 survey of the Journal of Experimental Psychology involving 166 subjects, we found that when people 's cell phone beeps or snores with difficult tasks, their attention focuses on them It was. Whether they check the phone - work will be more clumsy. In another survey in 2015, 41 iPhone users participated and were posted on "Computer Media Communications Magazine". This is because the blood pressure rises when people do not hear their phone ringing, the pulse is accelerating, the ability to solve the problem is diminished

Works that need a focused thinking will benefit from media confusion. This is clearly confirmed in the recent 2017 article by Nicholas Carr "How Smartphones Take Over Our Ideas". He pointed out that in the classroom environment mobile phones interrupted learning by interference of "task switching", and students sent texts and surfed the Internet. Furthermore, even if it is ignored, the mere existence of mobile phones will reduce people's intelligence. Perhaps because it requires a distracting spiritual effort to resist nearby cell phone pulling. The farther the phone is, the better the performance will be. When the phone is placed in a different room, the learning effect is greatly improved without hiding in the nearby backpack. In real life, students in UK secondary schools who ban campus calls have greatly improved the test scores.

The article on October 7th of Wall Street Journal of Nicholas Carr, "smartphone read the way to hijack our heart". Carr also "The Shallows", "What does the Internet do to our brains" (Norton, 2010) The authors of the book detail in detail the adverse effects of computers and smartphones on our society. Another "USA Today" article issued on the same day "Instagram: Why does your child like to use it" highlights some of the negative effects of popular services. There are more than 800 million users in Instagram, especially among teenagers and young people is said to be popular. Instagram allows you to post subtitled photos and publish almost anything. According to Molina:

"Our idea is likely to be hijacked - a high-tech insider who is worried about vision problems on smartphones", a long weekend on guardians who use smartphones to solve concerns about our destructive attention Even though articles, psychologists and psychiatrist associations have not raised such problems around the world, people insist that it is addictive.