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Sunday, 19 February 2017
Web-Based Brain Damage and Mindless Data Consumption
Waking Times: Evidence is mounting that our haphazard
info-consuming ways on the web are adversely affecting our neurological
and cognitive functioning – as well as wasting time by making us far
less efficient – and far more distracted – than we think we
are. The internet is a wonderful (read: essential) thing for humanity,
but the way we use it seems to need some tweaking. According to a study in the Journal of Digital Information, people who read documents online containing hypertext didn’t retain
as much information as people reading without hypertext. The temptation
to click on hyperlinks caused breaks in focus and attention,
interrupting the flow of the material, thus compromising memory
retention ...read more>>>...