Is Technology Causing Humans to Mutate?
Consumer technology evolves fast. It’s hard to believe that just two years ago, the Apple iPhone, Asus Eee PC, Amazon Kindle and Twitter didn’t exist. Only college students were on Facebook. And Bill Gates still worked at Microsoft. What’s harder to fathom is our own evolution. As technology changes, technology changes us — how our minds and bodies physically work. It’s not evolution, exactly. Call it culturally induced mutation. What’s happening to us? I say we’re growing super thumbs, faster fingers, outsourced knowledge, tolerance for repetitive stress, screen tolerance and dependence, pocket vibration sensitivity, shortened attention spans and heightened CGI perceptiveness. The Associated Press says technology is re-wiring our brains.
Original post by Mike