Article 2 - Impact of Technology on Human Memory

Vanishing are those days where kids used to play sports out in the sunshine, where adults used to meet their friends every week, where elders used to attend family functions, celebrate festivals in their home towns, where people used to say hello or hi to their neighbors.Apart from the daily work life, technology of television and internet has completely acquired those good old days which are merely memories now. 

Instead of running for a competitive race in the playground, kids, adults, teens and even elders are playing Temple Run series in Tablets. Instead of observing the nature in silence with a little country side walk,people are rushing in peak hours to their destinations in polluted and populated roads over the weekends. Instead of listening and enjoying the music of real birds, all are playing Angry Birds in iPad.  Instead of realizing and enjoying the value of their own native place or country, people are raising their eye brows and admiring the beauty of far away places and countries  which they can only dream of visiting. Instead of learning their own mother tongue language and converse to fellow humans, people are interested in learning tons of programming languages to communicate with machines.Instead of calling close friends and relatives over mobile phone, all started chatting in Facebook over the same smart phone (Meeting them directly and talking had stopped long back).

Even for simple maths calculations and help on medical advice, people are relying only on Google search. Then what is the use of children memorizing all maths time tables in their school life. We are not able to even remember the phone numbers of father, mother ,brothers or sisters or best friends as all contacts are stored safe in smart phone and synced to cloud. Over all technology is not only affecting memory, but also restricting human body, mind and soul. So instead of humans controlling technology, technology is controlling humans. Emotions, laughter, happiness are all tied up with machines now which was expressed between humans before. Thus technology is leaving a trace of old time as a treasure of memories which we are gradually forgetting now....

Its better we start saving some sweet memories which live short now a days. So how we can escape from being addicted to technology in order to understand the human brain power?

Will be continued in my next article,

Siva

Article 1 - Evolution of Technology

Various topics on technology always peek through one of technology's child internet every now and then. To list a few:

a) Technology - is it a boon or ban ? 

b) How technology has changed human's outlook toward the world in the last decade or century?

c) Are humans becoming addicted to technology use ?

d) Will artificial intelligent robots acquire human era in the near future?

Also we have been seeing so many science fiction thriller movies ranging from 2001- A space odyssey, Stealth to i-Robot, Matrix and War of the worlds where technology tries to overtake human life, memory, body, soul and everything. Now a days, no body can imagine a day without smart devices like mobile phones, tablets, laptops which is inter connected by the source as internet. If these are the recent inventions, then the previous major inventions like electricity, transportation including two, three and four wheeler, trains, airplanes etc have become the basic needs of day to day life.

The truth is that the new inventions in information technology are made to forget about the old ones.Cloud computing, Sixth sense and Google glass will make us forget about external hard disks, pen drives, laptops which in turn had made compact discs, floppy disks and personal computers disappear. But now even smart phones are becoming transparent. In the near future, every one will have their data in cloud locked with a secured account and password online.

If you want to meet some one 1000 miles away, your visual 3D or 4D projection can reach there in seconds and he will get a feel that he is talking to your clone. Every body is locating their destination in Google maps before they set out their journey now. But soon you can see the location route and destination point itself in front of you in a 3D projected satellite view like the scientists seeing island of Pandora in Avatar movie.

We cannot always predict how the technology will be evolving through out as the chain of inventions will never cease. Though these inventions are helping humans in various ways, they should not possess a threat to the humans.

Signing Off-

Siva