Tuesday, January 7, 2020
How Technology Has Changed Our Brain - 1452 Words
CC Orellana B3 The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve it. A computers are machines that use a binary system to store, memorize, and manipulate information, just quite like the brain. A computer is able to carry out a series of logical operations, but yet so is our brain. The computer has memory that stores data and central processing unit that carries out certain steps, but yet so does the human brain. From the first computer just being used vacuum tubes, to use the silicon chips, there has been a technological revolution. Each year for the last ten years, technology has been becoming smaller and more capable of faster processing. Technology makes it possible for the use of countless labor-saving machines. Thisâ⬠¦show more contentâ⬠¦So to look forward, the age group most researchers look at the people that are the ages between fourteen and twenty-four by 2014. Millennials have been showing growth and process throughout the time period many have been arguing about whether the new generation of digital technology i s making the young generation to become smarter, or stupider, than generations before. Recent psychologists and scientists are beginning to find their answers. They have found research on many of the current technological innovations that have helped benefit the millennial generation. One example of which is Auto-complete. Frequent users of phones, tablets, and laptops quickly get used to the auto-complete function of their devices, they need only type a few letters and the electronic device easily corrects and fills in the word. This handy function make just seem to make adolescent users faster, but surprisingly more accurate, when responding to a series of cognitive tests, according to research in 2009 from the journal Bioelectromagnetics, it was found that teenagers are actually learning better grammar, spelling, and diction. Another technological innovation is texting, as a study led by University of Coventry in Britain surveyed a group of teens about their texting habits, then asked them
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