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Is your iPhone making you stupid
- Thread starter Jonnybgoode87
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It's just making me rely on using maps to navigate myself around town, I rely on it to get me to point a to b. I use to just use a Thomas guide for my work but it has been replaced with my phone especially with the wave app.
Hmmm. I guess this could go both ways. I think because I can look up something immediately, I often find answers to questions or information about things I might otherwise not take the time to learn. In that sense I feel like it is actually broadening my knowledge.
I only use my calculator when I'm doing my bills or needing to work with a lot of numbers. I never use a tip calculator (people who can't figure 10% then double it probably need to attend middle school again). I use my maps on long trips or if I am going somewhere I've never been. I'd have to stop and ask directions if I didn't, so I don't see using maps as a bad thing. I look at the weather daily which is a practical time saver.
Even something like converting English to Spanish is improving knowledge because you are learning as you do it.
I am sure there are people who use the phone in ways that does hinder their thinking, but I feel like in a lot of ways it helps us learn more because of the immediate access to more knowledge than we have ever had at our fingertips in the past.
I only use my calculator when I'm doing my bills or needing to work with a lot of numbers. I never use a tip calculator (people who can't figure 10% then double it probably need to attend middle school again). I use my maps on long trips or if I am going somewhere I've never been. I'd have to stop and ask directions if I didn't, so I don't see using maps as a bad thing. I look at the weather daily which is a practical time saver.
Even something like converting English to Spanish is improving knowledge because you are learning as you do it.
I am sure there are people who use the phone in ways that does hinder their thinking, but I feel like in a lot of ways it helps us learn more because of the immediate access to more knowledge than we have ever had at our fingertips in the past.
Yes, it's making me stupid. Before, I read technical books and learned a great deal from those books. Now, I spend my time searching for my iPhone order and following "friends" on Facebook. I'm dumb.
Stupid. Deadly stupid. All the things mentioned in this thread, I've seen people do while driving. That glowing rectangle pulling eyes below the dashboard. People refuse to put it down. The phone always seems to be mote important than what's right in front of you. Whether it's driving, friends, family, cultural events, anything that should be experienced in the moment.