Title: 9 Subtle Ways Technology Is Making Humanity Worse
Headings: 9 subtle ways technology is making humanity worse
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9 subtle ways technology is making humanity worse
Chelsea Greenwood
Young people are losing the ability to interact face-to-face.
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Using mobile devices and computers is bad for our posture
Your eyesight can also suffer from too much device usage
Insomnia can be another side effect of digital devices
Technology is addictive
And technology is leading us to sedentary lifestyles
Social media and screen time can be bad for mental health
Relationships can be harmed by too much tech use
Young people are losing the ability to interact face-to-face
Instant access to information makes us less self-sufficient
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Content: This is due to the fact that so much of their communication is done not in-person but online, wrote Mark Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University and author of "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future," in an article for The Wall Street Journal. "We live in a culture where young people — outfitted with iPhone and laptop and devoting hours every evening from age 10 onward to messaging of one kind and another — are ever less likely to develop the 'silent fluency' that comes from face-to-face interaction," he wrote. Instant access to information makes us less self-sufficient
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These days, we have a world of information at our fingertips via the internet. While this is useful, it does have some drawbacks. Entrepreneur Beth Haggerty said she finds that it "limits pure creative thought, at times, because we are developing habits to Google everything to quickly find an answer." The long-term ramifications of humanity becoming wholly dependent on search bars and web browsers for information remain to be seen, but Matt Wallaert, a former behavioral scientist at Bing, told TechRadar he has reservations about the prospect. "When you search for 'when was George Harrison born,' does that prevent us from looking into our brain and realizing the answer?" Wallaert said. " When we scratch out that act, does it deprive us of that small burst of pleasure?"