Overuse Of Smartphones Can Reduce Memory

Smartphones don't really make you smart. In fact, if you use them too much, you could develop "digital amnesia," says a new survey by global software security group Kaspersky Lab. Researchers says that we do not use our memory much nowadays, and tend to reach for search engines to ferret out quick answers., according to hindustantimes.

The survey showed that among the 1,000 who had been contacted, most were scared that they would lose their phones!

Almost 91 per cent of the people said that they use the Internet as an "online extension of their brain". Half of them said the smartphone is their memory bank.

Most adults could not recollect important phone numbers of family members and friends. It was found that people do not even tend to protect their information. Just less than a third of the people surveyed said that security precaution is important for their devices.

There is indeed an information technology overload, which creates a divide between us as well as our environment, according to salon. "Never has distraction had such capacity to become total," writes the urban theorist Malcolm McCullough in "Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information." "Enclosed in cars, often in headphones, seldom in places where encounters are left to chance, often opting out of face-to-face meetings, and ever pursuing and being pursued by designed experiences, post-modern post urban city dwellers don't become dulled into retreat from public life; they grow up that way. The challenge is to reconnect."