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Is Mobile Technology Killing Your Memory?

Our web dependency could leave is with irreparable digital amnesia

We don't want to alarm you- well, maybe a little-, but your ability to memorize things is slowly being destroyed while you enjoy the increasing benefits of Internet 24/7. Don't believe us? Think of this: When was the last time you learned by heart 2 phone numbers? Do you know the password for each and every one of your accounts? Are you able to remember your friends and family's birthdays? If your answers are less than satisfactory, is due to the fact that Internet and cellphones have begun to severely affect they way you retain memories.

Researchers have named this phenomenon as Digital Amnesia, saying that in the next few years this will become even more severe up to a point where you won't be able to remember your partner's phone number or even have trouble with spoken language. According to a study conducted by Kaspersky Lab, which involved 6,000 people over the age of 16, it showed that 90% of the population that uses Internet was a very poor data retention: what makes it ironic is that instead of remembering specific information about certain things, people have developed the ability of finding what they need to know in a quicker and easier manner.

In 2011, Science magazine concluded that ' we are creating a symbiotic relationship with our computer tools, given that the development of our civilization has started to lean towards intertwined systems that know every single detail of each individual, which form a human autonomy." In other words, we are barely at the beginning of this exaggerated dependency of mobile devices, Internet and clouds. In theory, the situation won't take humanity to perdition, but if our memory remains data free from information that is already in our phones or the web, might as well take advantage of it with other type of information.

What is really serious is that we are becoming lazy, specially when it comes to learning. After all, why would you do an extensive research, when someone else already did it and it's just a few clicks away?

Article originally published in Qore.com

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