Technology has invaded our everyday life. We are constantly bombarded by different streams of information - from phone to computer to TV - and we can do more things at once. On average ricorrriamo to the media three times more than in the sixties and visit websites about 40 day window or changing the program at least 37 times an hour. Borrowing a term from computer language, we are increasingly "multitasker". But at what price? If you're reading this article occasionally throwing a glance at the phone or the TV, checking occasionally e-mail or tweet your friends, chatting with them on msn or listening to your iPod, perhaps - say more research - technology is asking a "cost" very high social and mental. Yes, because not only interferes with your daily lives, saving them from time to devote to family and friends in real life, but is even changing your ability to store and redesigning your brain. "We're exposing our minds to new environments and asking them to do things that are not necessarily evolved. We know that there are consequences," he told the New York Times Adam Gazzaley, director of the Center for Neuroscience at the images' University California.
"When you have 500 photos of your vacations to your Flickr account against five very significant, change your ability to remember the moments that really want to remember?" Asks rhetorically psychiatrist Elias Aboujaoude, director of the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic at Stanford and author of Virtually you: the Internet and the fracturing of the self (Virtually You: Internet and the fracture of the self). Due to storage space on the Internet almost unlimited, we are encouraged to keep everything, including the most trivial information at the expense of new ones: inevitably - maintains Aboujaoude - this change "our ability to store new memories and remember the things that we really should remember."
A team of researchers at Stanford University has gone beyond debunking the myth of "multitasker" hyperproductive: if the brain has shown that those who know how to use a computer is more adept at finding information as to who play video games to develop better visual activity, rather than the multitasker has more difficulty concentrating, can not distinguish the irrelevant information than revealing, and as if that were not enough, is even more stressed. A portion of the brain it acts as a tower control and helps us to focus and prioritize, and primitive parts, the same sights and sounds that process, ask her to divert attention whenever they are stimulated, incessant bombardment.
"The scariest part is that you can get rid of their tendencies multitasking even when you do not multitask," said Clifford Nass, the neuroscientist who led the research. In other words, the inability to concentrate persists even when the computer is off. Only the so-called free supertasker able to juggle multiple streams of information. However, represent less than 3 percent of the population. "We are at an inflection point: the experiences of a significant fraction of people are increasingly fragmented," warns Nass. It remains, agreeing with other experts suggests that seek to drastically reduce the time we spend online: forced to leave the phone home occasionally, how much time to spend daily on social networks or a limit to the number of times that we connect to control our e-mail. For it is only pulling the plug, "Paying attention to each other that - Nass says - we become more human."
[Source: repubblica.it]
" Technology alone can neither leave nor enslave;
it must be understood, guided,
used toward the goals we want. "
(George Cera)
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