Tuesday, May 13, 2008

How Technology is Changing Your Brain

By Susan Greenfield
Author of The Private Life of the Brain


Human identity, the idea that defines each and every one of us, could be facing an unprecedented crisis.


It is a crisis that would threaten long-held notions of who we are, what we do and how we behave. It goes right to the heart - or the head - of us all.


This crisis could reshape how we interact with each other, alter what makes us happy, and modify our capacity for reaching our full potential as individuals.


And it's caused by one simple fact: the human brain, that most sensitive of organs, is under threat from the modern world.


Unless we wake up to the damage that the gadget-filled, pharmaceutically-enhanced 21st century is doing to our brains, we could be sleepwalking towards a future in which neuro-chip technology blurs the line between living and non-living machines, and between our bodies and the outside world.


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