What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

You like internet. Obviously, you are not alone. People in your cubicle next to you are also on the Internet. The girl checked her e-mails while I was walking down the street, and liked the internet. Your mother is sending you a message to you on Facebook, yes, she is doing so. Everyone is using the Internet. But what is the Internet, what kind of medicine does everyone take?

Epipheo created this cute little animation depicting the idea of ​​Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows. Basically, that is all you already know about the Internet. It will divert your attention, it makes you lazy, it allows us to reduce the use of the brain. I have too much information, but I do not have much information to keep. Oh, the Internet. I can not give up on you. [Epiphone]

"The network is designed to be an interrupt system, a machine designed to distract," Nicholas Carl explained in his book "Shoal: What the Internet Does Our Brains" . "We are willing to accept distraction and concentration, distraction and divided ideas in exchange for the amount of persuasive or at least transferred information that we receive." . We will clarify our goals (remove ambiguous goals). What do you want to accomplish? What should you do to get there? What measures are taken? Does your current job satisfy this requirement? Otherwise, what can you do?

The Shallows: Nicholas Carr, the author of what the Internet does for our brains, by spending more time on the Internet to solve most problems, our brain plasticity makes it It should be influenced. But, apart from fragile nostalgia, in societies highly dependent on connection, is there any benefit to the way our brain adapts to digital life? Even if almost all of the brain uses the network as an additional storage device, it looks good, but there are still many unknown points. "Now, we do not know the impact of these tools on logical thinking," Wegner recalls.

In this book, The Shallows: What the Internet has done for our brains, this is the finalist of the Pulitzer Prize, Nicholas Carr said technology is causing a spiritual decline in our brains I prove to be. Although this is a provocative and counterintuitive assertion, he supports the complete discovery of neuroscience. In the 2008 UCLA survey, 24 brains were scanned during Google search. Researchers found that more experienced people on Google have increased activity in more parts of the brain, especially prefrontal cortex. This is part of your mind and is the consciousness you use to make a decision. You might think this is beneficial: "Here good news may help surfing the web as it contains so many brain functions may help clear the mind of the elderly" And Karl wrote.