Daily Mail Article - Modern Technology

Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield has written an article for the Daily Mail expressing how modern technology is affecting who we are, what we do and how we behave. This article is extremely relevant to my topic and focuses on how the human brain is under threat from the modern world.





Greenfield goes in to detail about how our electronic devices involve dangers which are gradually coming in to play. Whilst there are benefits from technical progression, there are also negative influences on the brain, including video games, the internet, wireless networks such as bluetooth and many more.

Susan Greenfield also states that electronic devices can affect our personality, behaviour and also characteristics - which is in fact altering our human identity. An example of this is attention spans becoming shorter, personal communication skills are reduced and there is a marked reduction in the ability to think creatively and abstractly. 

As this article is written by a neuroscientist it is very detailed and explains how this technology is affecting humans from a scientifical point of view. It relates extremely well to my topic and research question.

This article has been adapted from Susan Greenfield's book called ID: The Quest for Meaning in the 21st Century.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-565207/Modern-technology-changing-way-brains-work-says-neuroscientist.html