15 big ways the Internet is changing our brain
January 9, 2012
With much of human knowledge now our fingertips, the Internet is rewiring our brains in various ways, Online College finds:
- The Internet is our external hard drive
- Children are learning differently
- We hardly ever give tasks our full attention
- We don’t bother to remember
- We’re getting better at finding information
- Difficult questions make us think about computers
- IQ is increasing over time
- Our concentration is suffering
- We’re getting better at determining relevance
- We’re becoming physically addicted to technology
- The more you use the Internet, the more it lights up your brain
- Our brains constantly seek out incoming information
- We’ve become power browsers
- Online thinking persists even offline
- Creative thinking may suffer
