"Modern technology depletes human cognitive abilities more rapidly than drugs, according to a psychiatric study conducted at King's College, London. And the curse of 'messaging' is to blame. Email users suffered a 10 per cent drop in IQ scores, more than twice the fall recorded by marijuana users, in a clinical trial of over a thousand participants. Doziness, lethargy and an inability to focus are classic characteristics of a spliffhead, but email users exhibited these particular symptoms to a 'startling' degree, according to Dr Glenn Wilson."
An idea that has been very fascinating to me as of late is the fact that our technology shapes us. We adopt new technologies without realizing how they bring with them inherent changes to the dynamics of society and inter-personal relationships. Maybe we need some sort of screening time for new technologies like we have for new medicines. Interesting, eh?
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