More than 2% battery. Your phone is giving up on you. In this situation, are you able to call your children, your spouse or your job? If so, you are not yet affected by the new pathology, digital amnesia which has reached half of French people.
Similar to the Google effect, which weakens memory by always using the Internet to find information quickly, “digital amnesia” is “forgetting the information we keep in a digital device”, according to the Kaspersky company.
The survey figures speak for themselves. Only 58% of respondents know their children’s telephone number, 51% that of their place of work, 34% that of their spouse.
“Our increasing inability to remember important numbers because they are just a click away leaves us extremely vulnerable in the event the device is lost or stolen, or data compromised,” the study authors explain.
Indeed, respondents also said that if they lost this information or access to it in a smartphone or tablet, 17.6% of them would feel a state of panic, because it is the only one. where they would have stored them.
Make your memory work
Half of the people questioned remember the landline number from their youth. This memory of an era without smartphones reveals that our brains had better memories and that the daily use of technology has made our neurons more lazy. Indeed, this survey also reveals that 71.9% of French people claim to use the Internet as a second brain, this figure exceeding 83% among young people aged 16 to 24.
“The act of memorizing is a skill and its importance in our cognitive toolbox depends on the degree of relevance it has for us in the fact of navigating effectively in our world”, nevertheless tempers Dr. Katryn Mills, of the department of neuroscience from University College London (UK), cited in the study.
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