Technology is weakening the brain circuitry controlling people skills, say the authors of iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alternation of the Modern Mind, Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan.
Research has shown that obsession with computer technology and gaming appears to be stunting frontal lobe development in many teenagers, impairing their social and reasoning abilities.
That's right, technology is altering how young minds develop, function and interpret information.
Furthermore, a divide has developed in the span of just one generation between so-called "digital natives" who are hardwired for technology from toddlerhood and older "digital immigrants," who will be left behind politically, socially and economically if don’t adapt to technology.
So whether you are struggling to keep up or hankering to slow down, it bears repeating: human contact remains the strongest way to strengthen your brain.
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