The answer is yes. Technology affects humans everyday in multiple ways. It shapes our memory, our social life, our perception of things, our intelligence, and our mood.

Even though our brain can hold almost an infinite amount of information, technology can still affect how much information we can hold and retain. Researchers compare this lack of memory to a full glass of water. Tony Schwartz, CEO of The Energy Project, explain this water phenomenon. He compares the brain to a full glass of water. When you pour more water in the glass, or add new information, the water just fills in, yet the water that was previously there pours out. He is showing that the information that we are retaining from technology replaces our old information and that information jut leaves our brain. Another argument that Carolyn Gregoire makes in her article about how technology affects memory is that the fact that the internet has so much information that is easily accessible, we as humans tend to not remember as much information. Humans feel the need to not remember information that an be found on Google, which decreases the amount of information/memory the brain can hold. Gregoire also argues that being distracted makes it harder to form new memories. Zaldy S. Tan, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, says that not paying attention causes the memories we make to be “messy,” which makes it hard remembering that memory.

Even though technology may not affect the actual information that we receive, it does affect how we perceive it and store it on our memory. Technology decreases the strength of the memory and how well we will be able to retain that information from our brain. So yes, technology strongly affects our memory.

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