A guest post from Kat Sanders. She regularly posts at The Pharm Tech Blog.
There are many reasons to be grateful to technology and the millions of ways it has made life easier and more comfortable for all of us.
We cannot imagine a world without technology today, because it has crept into every aspect of our lives and made itself indispensable in more ways than one.
Not many people (unless they’re die-hard technophobes) have anything against technology, but if there’s one grouse I have, it’s that the hundreds of thousands of wonderful invention of mankind have contributed to the comprehensive dulling of the human brain.
When you think of it, our brain cells have less work to do because of the conveniences that technology offers us:
- We don’t remember things that we used routinely commit to memory: How many of us bother to remember phone numbers of friends and family members when it’s just easier to dial them from the contact lists on our mobile phones? And how many of us keep directions in mind after the advent of the wonder we call GPS? You have to admit that technology has made things easier for the idiots among us, but it has not done anything useful for the longevity and continued health of our neurons.
- Everything is handed to us on a platter that we don’t have to work for it anymore: With the Internet and related technology, searching for information has become so much easier than it was a decade ago. While you would think this is a good thing, what we do not realize is that there is a surfeit of information out there and not many of us bother to check which sources are authentic and which are not. This is because information is being handed to us without us having to go in search of it, without our brains being involved, that we stop questioning its veracity.
- Mindless activities are replacing intelligent ones: Technology and gaming have come together to bring violence and action into our lives. While games, those of the indoor kind, were supposed to keep your brains in working order in another life, today, they serve to exercise nothing except your hand and eyes. Your brain is hardly involved, and you react instinctively rather than intelligently.
With the high occurrence of mental illnesses like Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain diseases, it’s time to focus on mental health and on activities that help improve you’re cognitive and memory functions.
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This article is written by Kat Sanders, who regularly blogs on the topic of pharmacy tech certificate at her blog The Pharm Tech Blog. She welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: katsanders25@gmail.com.
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