Reading This Will Change Your Brain

Science textbooks are constantly changing too:

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/04/drama-of-andromeda.html

Do the people whose brains adapt to new technology better have a higher number of offspring? If so maybe in a few thousand years we can say for sure technology has caused our brains to evolve a ceratin way. (Somehow I doubt it.)

When they say "eons" i'll bet they mean EON8.

This article does not address biological evolution of the brain, unless you believe in Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics. Evolution occurs between successive generations, and not even a generation has passed since the advent of such technology. The changes in the brain addressed by this article represent only the plasticity of the brain and the influence of environment in development. Evolution is a word that gets thrown around with exceptionally little understanding of what it means.

I must say the topic is very interesting. I agree with the idea that people still have the choice and option of whether or not they want to be exclusively technogically oriented or not. With that being said, I really think that there will eventually be a copesetic balance between thw tech world and the "old school" of face to face communication. If a balance is achieved then I seriously doubt that natural selection will have any affect on our brain development in that respect.

personally, technology is extremely important because it seems to stretch our brains to a whole different level, and in that we are able to problem solve and see a broad perspective in our every day life as opposed to just having printed words.

Overall this technology has created evolution

Technology has changed the way people interact with one another but in the long run it has made us you different parts of our brains and overall technology is a good thing.

Yeah, But who gets minority status?

Excelent stuff!

My work and study to become an Informatic Engineer has definitely changed the way my brain thinks and solves problems.

your an idiot futyulebot. your'e not understanding what he is saying.

this is a lot of sound and fury over nothing - this guy's studies to me seem flawed to start with.
Maybe I gotta read the article again but if he's comparing "digital natives" (young people) versus
"digital foreigners" (old people) then he is comparing brains which ALREADY computer or not show major differences in how they handle problems computers or not. "computers do this blah blah blah" bs...
old people have better emotional grasp of other people anyways younger people tend to have better memory... why is this news? Anybody who likes the internet and uses it a lot is going to show a lot more activity in their frontal lobes than somebody who doesn't. An older person who really doesn't find it exciting isn't going to light up in the scanner either. If you don't like my punctuation fine but you couldn't disprove my points at all. Want to yammer about how you hate young people go ahead but sorry this study is just bs and computers don't do anything exciting to your brain.

The study has to be done on a large scale and on the people of different origins before we can make any inferences.

All of you are doing excellent job, It's amazing read your enlightining articles.this is the kind of mind the world needs, no minds that just think in war

Biotechnology is already implanting electrodes in paralized patients to retrain the brain to talk, walk and withstand pain. The Brain Train is coming...Other research in sports medicine can retrain the brain to focuss intensleyl on the ball's projectory., making better athlethes. New glasses can detect damaged white brain matter in sports competition so that concussions can dignosed and the athlethe is pulled. Wow!

Look at the research of Dr. Daniel Amen with his brain scans pinpointing chemical disturbances, hence better dignoses of brain strain.

Just wait until we begin using brain waves to interface with computers. It's beginning to happen. A company called Emotiv is introducing non-invasive BCI device on to the market over the next year. A Japanese company has demonstrated similar technology. Both the Emotiv device and the Japanese devises give pretty low resolution scans but they are crucial first steps. In the lab with invasive technology where electrodes are implanted into the brain things are getting really interesting. As long ago as the nineties they had a ???locked-in??? (paralyzed) patient directly controlling a cursor with his mind. When asked what he felt when controlling the cursor he said ???nothing.??? Work with monkeys has shown that their brain can remap itself to control artificial limbs just as easily as natural ones. This is probably what happened to the paralyzed man. I am a digital native, but I am not cocky about it because I know that I will soon feel just as maladapted as the generations before me. New technology like this is going to render our skills obsolete. If this advance doesn't do it something will. The only constant is change. We wont know we???re becoming a new species until one day we dig up the bones of our ancestors and wonder what they were.

Just wait until we begin using brain waves to interface with computers. It's beginning to happen. A company called Emotiv is introducing non-invasive BCI device on to the market over the next year. A Japanese company has demonstrated similar technology. Both the Emotiv device and the Japanese devises give pretty low resolution scans but they are crucial first steps. In the lab with invasive technology where electrodes are implanted into the brain things are getting really interesting. As long ago as the nineties they had a ???locked-in??? (paralyzed) patient directly controlling a cursor with his mind. When asked what he felt when controlling the cursor he said ???nothing.??? Work with monkeys has shown that their brain can remap itself to control artificial limbs just as easily as natural ones. This is probably what happened to the paralyzed man. I am a digital native, but I am not cocky about it because I know that I will soon feel just as maladapted as the generations before me. New technology like this is going to render our skills obsolete. If this advance doesn't do it something will. The only constant is change. We wont know we???re becoming a new species until one day we dig up the bones of our ancestors and wonder what they were.

Just wait until we begin using brain waves to interface with computers. It's beginning to happen. A company called Emotiv is introducing non-invasive BCI device on to the market over the next year. A Japanese company has demonstrated similar technology. Both the Emotiv device and the Japanese devises give pretty low resolution scans but they are crucial first steps. In the lab with invasive technology where electrodes are implanted into the brain things are getting really interesting. As long ago as the nineties they had a ???locked-in??? (paralyzed) patient directly controlling a cursor with his mind. When asked what he felt when controlling the cursor he said ???nothing.??? Work with monkeys has shown that their brain can remap itself to control artificial limbs just as easily as natural ones. This is probably what happened to the paralyzed man. I am a digital native, but I am not cocky about it because I know that I will soon feel just as maladapted as the generations before me. New technology like this is going to render our skills obsolete. If this advance doesn't do it something will. The only constant is change. We wont know we???re becoming a new species until one day we dig up the bones of our ancestors and wonder what they were.