Gadgets affecting on intellectual capabilities of humans

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Describing how technology has overpowered our lives and what are its disadvantages.

Gadgets affecting on intellectual capabilities of humans In this contemporary world, humans are mostly stuck on gadgets like mobile phones, and many other gadgets. But they are unaware of its effects on their intellectual capabilities. The effects outcomes of the gadgets are:

• Technology addiction: 

technology addiction

It is the most common to see people seated on a bus or walking on roads use their mobiles and busy over it. They are stuck on this gadget and become addicted to this technology. Smartphones plus tablets, and the emergence of the other smart devices, as well as tools like the Amazon Echo, Apple Watch promote as well as increase the addiction by eradicating the time-lapse from tasks plus activities that before requirements logging into a desk-bound computer or traveling and communicating with people in a one-to-one basis. After a lot of studies, it is found that the average millennial picks up the smartphone almost 150 times in a day and most of the time depends on tech which is known as technology addiction. It makes their mind to indulge over the smartphones and make them addicted to this tech.

• Colored dreams:

A study is conducted as Scotland's Dundee University, in 2008, found that adults of the age of 55 who grew up with black and white TV set in their household were more likely to dream in black and white. While the younger participants, who grew up in the age of Technicolor always dream in color, found in 2011, by the American psychological association.

• FOMO:

The FOMO is basically fear of missing out, As per The New York Times as " the mixture of anxiety, inadequacy plus irritation that can stimulate social media. Social media is a platform where people post pictures of theirs, and dinners, raging parties, and enviable travel check-insns. • Hurts the memory, attention span, and sleep cycle: Technology has changed human physiology and concerns their memory, attention spans, and sleep cycles.

• Shortened attention span:

The regular utilization of technology has shortened the attention span of humans from 12 minutes to 5 minutes. The continuous news feeds and videos hold our brains and people who spent 5 hours online a fave have trouble remembering people’s names.

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