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Thursday, July 31, 2014

8 ways technology is making you stupid

8 ways technology is making you stupid
PEOPLE assume that iPhones, laptops and Netflix are evidence of progress. In some ways, that’s true. A moderate amount of Googling, for instance, can be good for your brain, and there are apps that can boost brain function and activity.
Yet tech advancements also come with some unintended consequences. Our brains being “massively rewired” by tech, says neuroscientist Michael Merzenich in The Shallows: What The internet Is Doing To Our Brains, a Pulitzer-nominated 2011 book by Nicholas Carr. Merzenich warns that the effect of technology on human intelligence could be “deadly.”
That got us thinking. How exactly is technology messing up our brains?  read more


TOPFIT Daily Activities --- Lower Table Rock Run
Between my morning sessions and afternoon commitments, I made time for a run on Lower Table Rock.....once again, I didn't beat the heat and it did slow me down a bit.

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