Resume: Piece of Mind

Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our Ability to Remember?

This text is a about the impact of the internet and modern facilities on human mind and memorization skills. It discuss if the internet with all facilities that we have today like google, Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia plus the cell phones which keep everyone connected on the internet every time everywhere, including when we are sleeping. Because nowadays we do not need to remember the things anymore. We just need to “google” the question and the answer will be just there. We are not really trying to memorize things, friends contacts, food recipes, etc. Would be possible that a consequence of this is that we are all unlearning how to use our brain?

The Columbia University of Psycologist conduct a series of experiments to discuss this topic. The fact is, before the people do have to research to know about the things, but the information were never as accessible as today, so the people today just have ways to find the information easier and faster. So the text said that the people that do not have the information so easier to find they will try to memorize the facts in order to understand the concepts and this is worse for the brain the not try to memorize.

Concluding the text John Suler a psychology professor at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J. agrees and said that we are still going to remember information that is importanto to us, and use the internet to find information that is less usual or not used often.