It’s kind of widely recognized that computer games can rewire the brain. There’s something about the visual and auditory input so that you don’t need to use your imagination, and the speed as which the input happens, which makes reality seem slow and boring.
If you notice, also, kids don’t interact socially much these days. How many times do you see groups of kids walking down the street, not talking to each other, but all on their cell phones texting one another?
People are losing their social skills and becoming somewhat detached from reality.
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I fully agree....Additionally it’s all about appealing to the senses and experiencing of these. The mind, the ability to reason, to imagine, to create is being shut down in a computer world that in reality is not real.
Their “attachment” is now to whatever devises they have an accumulation of those. Their ‘Focus” is blurred.
It’s kind of widely recognized that computer games can rewire the brain. There’s something about the visual and auditory input so that you don’t need to use your imagination, and the speed as which the input happens, which makes reality seem slow and boring.
Earlier this year I did a presentation for men's group on "technology". It turns out to be a vastly larger subject than most people think.
All technology has effects. Speech itself qualifies as a technology (albeit ancient and God given). Writing, printing, all of it. Moving from one information medium to another can have unexpected effects on the way we think. Ex. the codex (text bound to a spine in pages), which might have been an early Christian invention, but was certainly used extensively by them, unexpectedly introduced random access to the reading of large texts. Scrolls have to be accessed in a linear fashion. With a codex you can hold your place and flip back.
Anyway, yes, "new media" is adversely affecting our ability to think. They are powerful and useful tools, but not without a downside. Rewiring our brains, as it were. Our brains turn out to be more plastic (malleable, adaptable) out of childhood ages than we thought. I can give you a ton of references. It's an interesting study.