How technology is changing us and our body

Millions of years and countless gene mutations turned us from primitive people such as we are right now. Many changes have occurred as a result of that existed in those days, tools and "technology." And the current technological developments affect us, changing the look and behavior.

After reading about the seven alleged consequences of the use of modern achievements and gadgets, you might want to reconsider your lifestyle and to break away from your tablet screen.

Our immune system is weakened

We become addicted to drugs. At the slightest provocation to take pills, even as a preventive measure. From this, our immune system is weakened, it is no longer able on their own to fight viruses.

Our memory is getting worse

All the wealth of the world's knowledge is literally at your fingertips. Why strain and store that can be stored in the electronic "brains" of gadgets and infinite cloud storage spaces. Our zapominatelnye abilities deteriorate. This is already happening. Please note that your parents remember much more from your past than you are of her.

We are threatened with domination of genetically modified humans

Thanks to advances in medicine, we have to deal with a variety of diseases and mutations, with that, people simply did not survive before. Natural selection is replaced with artificial selection, when at the helm are scientists. Already now we can dream that genetic engineering will allow literally to "collect" the parents of the future child, to determine the structure of its bones, muscles and organs.

There will be those who can afford to be physically and mentally perfect offspring, and those who have children will be born in a natural way, without first "adjustment" in the laboratory. But will they both have the same opportunities? Most likely no. Remember the movie "Gattaca".

Our hands turn into tentacles

Some scholars suggest that the continuous interaction with touch screens can radically change the structure of our hands. Instead of fingers with hard knuckles we will have soft tentacles, which will be convenient and again Tapan on the screens of gadgets.

We will live forever

As predicted by the famous American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, in the future we will be able to download our minds to the cloud, providing itself thus eternal existence. It sounds too fantastic, but Kurzweil and other respected scientists assure that we can learn to "keep the brain" by the end of this century!

Our muscles atrophy

Sedentary lifestyle inevitably leads to the fact that we become weak. Footage from the cartoon "WALL-E" show dystrophic society of the future. But it does not seem quite so fantastic.

we have become obsolete

Yes, it was obsolete as a species. Our work on the active development of artificial intelligence may eventually result in us harm. It predicts many bright minds, including Stephen Hawking. If we blindly trust the robots and computers and to give them all the information and control capabilities, soon they may decide that people no longer need.

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