The Influence Of Technology On Memory And Memory

Now one in five people carries a smartphone; with the earth 's population being seven billion, that means one point four billion people carry a smartphone. It is as if the person carries a second limbic system with them at all times. The limbic system is a part of the temporal lobe that process memory. This second limbic system has come to replace the limbic one point o. If someone was to say the word memory those around him usually would assume the memory is meant to be related to something technological, though the most important memory is the memory that has unknowingly been replaced by the memory of the internet. The memory is the ability to encode and recall information from past activities. Memory simply is the sum total of a person remembers …show more content…
Now most people believe that the only connection that they have to the internet is the fact that they use it, just as they would use their car. In the past it was easy to remember a phone number yet now it seems difficult for people to do, it has even become a workout at a dinner party for people to answer questions that may be simple. Do you remember the last time your phone was used for a remedial task? Technology has changed the way that we live out our daily lives, learn, and where the human attention span is directed and research has been discovered on the effects on the memory, it has been specifically calling effects on the short term memory. Humans have unknowingly hindered their ability to truly remember information. It has been found that obsessively taking photos have done nothing but slow the process of taking a picture. Just a single hour of internet usage can make it more difficult to …show more content…
When someone knows that a device, specifically digital will hold whatever information that is considered necessary. Humans now rely on the devices ability to save a small amount of information for them which has caused the memory of humans to become weak. Throughout history people have relied on shared intelligence, but the internet was not as open or even accessible at the time just as now but it is now relied on using the internet primarily. Due to the internet now being the primary source of information, the mental task of information holding is not fully lost but it is now a struggle. Memory has become such a struggle that people have now fallen victim to games that are meant to improve the strength of the human memory, yet the game is usually connected to the internet and causes the person to take two steps back while taking one step forward. It is more than common and comforting to search “Google” for the location of the nearest “Subway”, instead of calling a friend that lives in the same proximity who really does know the location of the “Subway”. People have become so reliant on the internet that they refuse to use the vast knowledge that is equivalent and maybe even better than the internets options. The smart phone or cell phone has become external hard drive and a second friend that will never leave you and answers every possible question. The internet is the friend that remembers everything that