Back on Tuesday the 12th we marveled at how New York drivers apparently need a law to remind them to watch the road instead of texting behind the wheel.
In a comment from Aziza we learn people are also walking into traffic and falling down manholes while texting, rendered so unaware of the world around them it’s no longer instinctive to watch where they are going.
Now comes a new scientific study "Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips.”
“We are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools” the study says, “we have become dependent on them... [with] ...lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it.”
As tech gets smarter, a digital generation grows demonstrably less able, losing self sufficiency. How can lower rates of recall of information be a good thing?
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