Saturday, June 5, 2010

Technology leads to Lower IQ's ?

Recently, during a car trip, my friends were curious about which band was on the radio. Rather than having a few minutes of conversation and guessing the band, one of my friends merely swiped her Iphone near the radio and got the answer. #1 does anyone think for themselves anymore or do apps do all the thinking, and #2 what ever happened to an interesting conversation where you guess and discuss various bands??? The "I wonder who does this song"? question was answered by the IPhone within seconds and the conversation was over! Medical experts tell us to do Soduko and crossword puzzles to keep our minds fresh and active and to help fight off Alzheimers, yet we are waving around IPhone and reading off of Kindles which define every word for us rather than using a conversation or a dictionary to help define the word. Don't EVEN start me on DVD players in automobiles, which entirely wipe out family conversations and "car games" while the children are 1/2 dead monkeys during the car trip watching movies! Technology is meant to help us and to make our lives easier --- but it seems some technology is turning our minds into MUSH !!!