The internet weakens your memory, but something better takes its place ...!

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The internet weakens your memory, but something better takes its place ...! Among the most important transformations and changes in our daily lives; In this digital century, we lack the need to remember many things. Instead of taking the risk of not remembering the date of birth of a relative or friends or a date with a friend, we can simply record it on your computer, smartphone or tablet ... so that it will remind you of your schedule.

Paul McCartney A theory about this "Paul McCartney" presented the subject in an interview during the summer. McCartney claims that the Beatles in the 1960s wrote dozens of songs that were not released because John and Lennon were forgetting these songs at dawn.

"We had to memorize any song we wrote because there was always the danger that we might wake up at dawn without remembering anything."

How old Paul's style is different with the methods of writing and recording songs in a modern way when it is possible to form a song, complete its preparation, remember it all and then go quickly to record it. "

With the technology that fits our needs in our daily lives, researchers have tried to monitor and explore the influence of this technique on our learning and recalling of data. Some researchers suggest that our reliance on technology and the Internet leads us to a "digital memory buffer" where people lose their ability to retain information as a result of storing data on a digital device.

In a recent study, for example, 1,000 volunteers aged 16 and above were interviewed on their use of technology. 91% of them rely on the Internet and digital devices as tools to help them remember things. In another survey of 6,000 people, 71% of them could not remember their children's phone number, and 57% did not remember the phone numbers of their workplace. This indicates that relying on digital data memory devices is damaging our memory systems.

But before we feel sorry for that unfortunate loss of memory; the latest studies suggest that perhaps we are adapting. One of the studies from 2011, which was a series of experiments to examine how our memory depends on computers. In one, participants were asked to write a series of information such as "The ostrich's eye is bigger than her brain."

Half of them were told that their documents would be saved, and the other half was told to resist. All of them were later tested to see if they could remember what they had written. Second, participants were asked to write a series of information which would be saved in specific volumes. They were then asked to try to remember the information and folders in which you were saved. Generally, the results may be remembered as the best volumes of information recall.

So what is the conclusion from these two previous experiments?

The technique has changed the way we organize data so that we can remember the details that are no longer available and prioritize the place of data rather than its content.