How Technology Is Rewiring Our Brains

Fractured thinking may be on the rise in our digitally interconnected world of multitaskers

. The old adages about all things being in balance and too much of a good thing applies to our brave new world of information overload. Our attention spans as well as the very way we feel is being affected - and continues to be affected even after we turn off the computer or smartphone.

By spending so a lot time with e-mail, chat, text messaging, and other forms of communication where information is presented in short bursts but there is so a lot incoming information constantly, we are actually training our brains to value the superficial and losing the ability to focus and think deeper. Research study after research study shows that despite what folks imagine about themselves, human beings become worse cognitively after a life full of instantaneous communications.

Juggling the constant influx of information undermines our ability to pay attention. Bursts of information play into a primitive impulse of our human psychology to immediately respond to threats and opportunities. It echoes our distant past when we were defenseless creatures continuously searching for food while simultaneously searching out for hunters that would eat us.

This sort of simulation provokes a particular type of excitement to which our brains, addled by dopamine as well as adrenaline, become easily addicted. Yet despite the stress that all this excitement produces, we feel bored in its absence.

Thus starts a pernicious cycle whereby we find it harder and harder to concentrate while in effect desiring ever more the fact that we cannot focus!

Technology is literally rewiring our brains, because even after people give up all their computers and smartphones it is very tough to reset our brains. Still think you're a multitasker?

Take the simple test at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-task-switching-demo.html and see how well you do!

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by: Aaron Miller

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