Smart Phones Are Making Us Dumb.

Earlier we had things like body clock, sixth sense, intuition, IQ, memory power, attention span. Now these things feels like we are talking about some scientist of NASA. Yes, now a days we are dumb in comparison to our own man-made smart phones. One of the most evident example is case Blue Whale game,where smart-phone drove people till death.

Steve Job unveiled the first iphone, today thanks to him, we can summon all the world’s information with a few tap of our finger. We can listen any song and we can communicate to anyone at any place at any time.These smart phones have changes our way of doing countless things. But at the same time it has changed ourselves as well. Now a normal human being owns average attention span less than even a gold fish,which earlier had the crown of being on the last position in the queue. As per research by psychiatrist, neuron-scientist , marketers and public health experts smart phones are causing real damage to our minds and relationships, measured reduction in attention span, reduced brainpower, decline in work life balance and reduction in hours of quality family time. These technologies has even reduced our creativity, our power of imagination, daydreaming. It means now we are worse at being alone and worse at being together.

The extent of our dumbness has grown to such a level that most of us now don’t even know what we actually enjoy, in haste of getting social validation in the form of online likes we are caught up in a trap which is similar to dopamine and drug effect. We can’t spend a single day without this smart phone. To ensure our addiction our smart phones has connected us to internet giants where technology drives us,persuades us to behave in certain way which is defined by the tech gadgets. Earlier we use to remember necessary numbers but now we don’t even remembers our own cell phone number. Mind calculation is something that is super power of only a few individuals. We don’t know how to react in different situations as Google has put a full stop on our thinking process. Now we don’t put our effort to remember navigation, we don’t put effort to do some mistakes and learn from them because Google is there to help us. If battery of smart phones goes down than we feel as if will be chocked as smart phones has became our life line. Actually we have became salves of smart gadgets and it is quite difficult to get rid of this slavery.