Is Your Phone Making You Dumber And Less Friendly? This Tech Journalist Says It Is. by James Coulter If you're reading this article, chances are you're reading it from your smart phone. Perhaps you even received a Facebook notification from the Daily Ridge. And after this, you will most likely…
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Using mobile phones to navigate has become second nature. Whether you’re heading to a new park, meeting friends at a restaurant, or going to run errands, you just tap the location on your phone and go. Prior to GPS, exploring and wayfinding in new places required preparation. We had to think, consult paper maps, and plan and memorize parts of our route. But in today’s technological world, there is no need to think. Simply follow the turn-by-turn directions on your phone, and you’ll end up where you need to be. But your overall sense of the place suffers. Spatial navigation, which had been a process performed exclusively by the human brain and perceptual system, has now been surrendered to technology.