Probably the last time someone gave you her phone number did not have the need to memorize: you assigned a name you recorded in your phone and let the computer do the rest, and pair it with your applications as part of your vast network of contacts. With all these facilities, what you should memorize it?
A study by security firm Kaspersky Lab said more than half of mobile users in the US and Europe said they could not remembering phone numbers of friends and neighbors. In addition, 44% of American said they could not remember the numbers of their brothers.
According to research, 91% of Americans think the Internet and the devices connected to the Net as an extension of your brain. And 44% also serves as its smartphone and go to this memory whenever you need anything. While 79.5% of European respondents admitted that uses the Internet as a universal reference book.
Kaspersky Lab attributed this situation to the “digital amnesia”, defined as the experience of forgetting information trust a digital device to the store or remember in your place. This condition -of according to the study-not only affects the digital natives (young), but also people from a range of older
Not only that:. Of respondents throughout the world, over 51% of Americans and 40% of Europeans (especially women and young people) claim that for them, the danger or loss of information stored on their mobile devices, particularly of its smartphones , would cause them great distress.
Already in 2011, research published in the journal “Science” showed that when people expect access to online information are less likely to remember the facts. “We are doing symbiosis with our tools,” said the scientific publication called this finding as the “Google effect”.
Kaspersky Lab said that given the increasing reliance on Internet-connected devices, users should be more concerned adequately protect the security of their computers.
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