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Technology and Brain (123rt.com)

You’re writing an email and a ‘ding’ sound distracts you to look at the lower corner of the laptop screen. Someone sent you an instant message on your ‘always signed in’ messenger.  You check what the messages are and respond to them immediately. A conversation begins! Your friend on the opposite side is responding to you instantly and both of you start enjoying your conversation. An hour later you think of checking what time it was and are astonished to realize that one hour has lapsed. Your friend pauses in his conversation for a few seconds and you realize that you were actually writing an email. It was an urgent email that you were supposed to respond to but got dragged in the interactive chat. Technology got your mind all engrossed and you lost your focus!

You’re on a family vacation and everyone’s having a time of their lives playing volleyball on the beach side but your mind is just too busy thinking of the twitter feed and the RSS updates you’re missing. Your teenage child waves at you while riding on his beach buggy but you’re just too distracted to even smile back.

You’re happy that while you’re away from your workplace your office PC has remote access enabled and you can get all your fax messages on your edge enabled Smartphone. You’re too excited about it and are happy that you’re home and can still work from there..but did you notice you friends and family who do not seem very happy and are tired that all you can ever think of is your pack of technology oriented activities. This technology oriented part of brain is completely negligent that the people around you want to discuss you things about your own self and other stuff but you’re just not interested.

The above are examples of three different scenarios where technology has become so dominated that it has taken over the basic instincts of man. The personal instincts that would make you realize that you’re a human being and are conscious of the fact that there are others around you who love you and want you to be with them too. It is for the above mentioned reasons that an overdose of technology is highly shunned. It is true that gadgets are attractive and are highly fascinating too but it’s better to keep them at a distance from your private life!