internet changing our brains

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°C x 9/5 + 32 = °F is the formula to change Celsius to Fahrenheit. There are five milliliters in one teaspoon. The quadratic formula is x=-b+/- the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a. Why does someone need to know this? People don't, because with a few clicks of a search engine, they will have the answer instantaneously. The internet has changed our ways of life by decreasing our memory, increasing our impatience, and affected our communication skills with other people.
Since the internet has been invented, information and facts have been easier to acquire and read. Birthdays have been automatically inputted into smart phone calendars from Facebook. Calling someone just involves clicking their contact in phones. No need to remember to check our emails because we have an icon that pops if anything new comes in. The internet is causing us to remember things less. Is it efficient? Yes, but at what price are paying for efficiency. Socrates stated in Plato's " Phaedrus", that putting words down on a scroll or tablet would "produce forgetfulness , because they would not use their memories"(Plato) Socrates is right about us not using our memories. I work at a pharmacy and ask every new patient for their best contact number. I get people that need to look at their phone to find their own number. Instead of memorizing the top 200 drugs, I could just Google it. Our memories are deteriorating because of the internet.
Another affect of the internet is our patience. If someone needs to know who won the Spurs game, they just need to type "Spurs" in Google and it will pop up in less than five seconds. Need to know movie times to a theatre nearby? Fandango has an app that tells you in two shakes of a lambs tail. We are consta...

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...cannot remember our contact numbers in our phones, and we cannot communicate the same, socially as well as sexually. We have to step back and think, is this what we want? Does the gratification of the internet outweigh the outcomes?

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