15 Big Ways the Internet is Changing Our Brain

January 9, 2012

With much of human knowledge now our fingertips, the Internet is rewiring our brains in various ways, Online College finds:

1. The Internet is our external hard drive
2. Children are learning differently
3. We hardly ever give tasks our full attention
4. We don’t bother to remember
5. We’re getting better at finding information
6. Difficult questions make us think about computers
7. IQ is increasing over time
8. Our concentration is suffering
9. We’re getting better at determining relevance
10. We’re becoming physically addicted to technology
11. The more you use the Internet, the more it lights up your brain
12. Our brains constantly seek out incoming information
13. We’ve become power browsers
14. Online thinking persists even offline
15. Creative thinking may suffer