Growing numbers of us are now locked into our smartphones from morning until night. Our cognitive integration with Google is a reality. First, Google is not a mere passive cognitive tool. Google Maps not only tells us how to get where we want to go on foot, by car or by public transport , but now gives us personalised location suggestions that it thinks will interest us. Gmail now makes suggestions about what we want to type.
And Google News now pushes stories that it thinks are relevant to us, personally. But all of this removes the very need to think and make decisions for ourselves. Google — again I stress, literally — fills gaps in our cognitive processes, and so fills gaps in our minds. And so mental privacy and the ability to think freely are both eroded. According to recent reports , the average UK smartphone user checks his phone every 12 minutes.
There are a whole host of bad psychological effects this could have that we are only just beginning to appreciate, depression and anxiety being the two most prominent. The reason why so many of us find it so hard to put our smartphones down, it seems to me, is that we have integrated their use into our everyday cognitive processes.
We literally think by using them, and so it is no wonder it is hard to stop using them. Benjamin Curtis is a lecturer in philosophy and ethics at Nottingham Trent University. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Cite this article Hide citations. Curtis, Benjamin. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 4 Sep. Curtis, B. Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 4, Accessed January 14, The Nieman Journalism Lab is a collaborative attempt to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age.
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