What we do have evidence of is that technology is changing our brains. The most recently evolved, “plastic” parts of the brain change in direct response to experience. Because of technology, today’s kids have a better memory for visual images and a greater facility for learning how to navigate and decode the digital world by doing it. Digital bombardment has changed the way that children process visual information, and even how they read. Reading used to be linear—there were no distractions, it was just line after line, page after page after page. Now anyone who spends significant time on a
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