http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011608655_ibrain15m.html
My son and a colleague and I went to the Town Hall talk by Dr. Small last night. Dr. Small brought out some interesting points: 1) our youth are losing interpersonal and social interaction skills, 2) we sometimes feel anxious when we lose control or access to our technology, 3) we often make more mistakes when multitasking, 4) fMRI studies of brains while websearching show increased activation that decreases with time as we become more efficient at it.
On the other hand Dr. Small did not allude to one very beneficial effect of our technology which was brought out by a questioner in the audience at the end of his talk. Specifically, that modern technology stimulates human creativity by the coming together of ideas to create totally new ideas; that without modern "iTech" these new creations would never have had the chance to come to fruition (at least they would be statistically improbable to do so). Overall the talk was not all that inspiring but I might give his book a try.....when it comes out on Kindle :)
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