Mobile phones 'dumbing down brain power'

Iria · Jul 15, 2007, 09:05 PM

Source: Telegraph.co.uk
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An over reliance on technology is leading to a dumbing down of the nation’s brain power, according a study published today.

In a society flooded with mobile phones, Blackberry devices and computers of various shapes and sizes, a quarter of all Britons do not know their own landline number while as little as a third can recall more than three birthdays of their immediate family.

Ev!L-aLphA · Jul 15, 2007, 10:12 PM

its true... before i had a cellphone i had a TON of numbers memorized and now i left my phone in my friends car and i know maybe 1 or 2 numbers of friends to call without my phone =|

BlueMak · Jul 15, 2007, 11:30 PM

even before I got a mobile never knew more than my land line number and my birthday. Nothing changed.

Jul 15, 2007, 09:05 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 87	Mobile phones 'dumbing down brain power' Source: Telegraph.co.uk ________ An over reliance on technology is leading to a dumbing down of the nation’s brain power, according a study published today. In a society flooded with mobile phones, Blackberry devices and computers of various shapes and sizes, a quarter of all Britons do not know their own landline number while as little as a third can recall more than three birthdays of their immediate family.

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Ev!L-aLphA \| n f e c t e D Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,111 Rep Power: 60	its true... before i had a cellphone i had a TON of numbers memorized and now i left my phone in my friends car and i know maybe 1 or 2 numbers of friends to call without my phone =\| __________________ R.I.P 8/8/04 4/21/08

Jul 15, 2007, 11:30 PM	#3
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,248 Rep Power: 328 System Specs	even before I got a mobile never knew more than my land line number and my birthday. Nothing changed. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*