Are gadgets destroying our common sense?

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Are gadgets destroying our common sense?

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In a world where gadgets are growing more sophisticated, human behaviour is changing - and not in a good way.

That is what Robert Vamosi, author of When Gadgets Betray Us argues in his book, which examines the dangers of our growing dependence on technology.

As gadgets develop the ability to multitask seemingly endless functions, Vamosi argues that people are increasingly unable to think for themselves.

"Instead of lifting our heads, looking around and thinking for ourselves," Vamosi writes, some of us no longer see the world as human beings have for thousands of years and simply accept whatever our gadgets show us.
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It's a fact that the best inventions and most money comes from what enables people to be even more lazy.
Think of a way to make a persons life more lazy and you're rich. :wink:
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It all depends on the user and how the product is used. They say that google is making people lazy. Well for some that's true for others its just a medium to speed up research time so that that time can be used for more useful things such as time with family.
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Siemens wrote:It all depends on the user and how the product is used. They say that google is making people lazy. Well for some that's true for others its just a medium to speed up research time so that that time can be used for more useful things such as playing COD: Black Ops.
Fixed that for you.
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