God help us all when generation text are running the country.

Check out this article
http://www.mailonsunday.ie/sciencetech/article-1205924/God-help-Generation-Text-running-country.html


Baroness Susan Greenfield, the writer of this article is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords Susan Greenfield. Greenfield, specializes is the physiology of the brain, her research has brought attention to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Her view is a result of many years of study in the field of the mind.
She is reporting on studies done in Australia by Professor Jameson and his team quote “predictive texting promotes a general tendency towards inaccuracy”
Does predictive texting promote attention deficit disorders? As the writer suggests there is an absence of evidence however what does your gut tell you? Well my gut is very chatty to-day and is definitely in agreement with this article but goes one step further and suggests that we have become quicker and faster at many tasks and we do things so quickly we barely have time to monitor what we are doing. The human mind is very easily distracted. For thousands of years the challenge has been discipline. They great minds of our times had this in common disciplined minds. In current times the buzz words we hear are "focus". Focus on the issue. This can be challenging when we are multitasking and constantly distracted by the next gadget or advertising. Even I have a Nintendo Ds. We barely have time to stop think and have an opinion. We are on information overload. However I am not sure that it is predictive texting alone that is responsible for our inaccuracies.
The human mind is already prone to distraction and never before has there been a time in our evolution when we have had so much to distract us. Our minds are like monkeys swinging from branch to branch from thought to thought, sadly the same thoughts, going round in circles in the same patch of jungle, money, possessions, gadgets, brands, materialism, etc . I wonder is that why we have had such huge numbers of people wanting to grow their own vegetables and make their own clothes recently. Surely not to save the money! I think it actually costs more to make your clothes or grow your own vegetables. Maybe people just want to slow down their minds,take their time and do things carefully and properly enjoying the fruits of there labour. Have we gone so far out of balance that we are finally swinging back in the other direction. I hope so!
The brain is like a muscle that develops according to how it is used I think I heard that said in one of my classes. How are we teaching young people to use there brains.
In the article Susan talks about soldiers in WW1 and WW11 She compares us to soldiers writing love letters home. These letters were often pages expressing the sentiment I love you and I miss you. Were is the depth in a short abbreviated text? I have to agree with her.
It does feel like generation text are making decisions quicker and faster and possibly not putting the thought into things. Lets face it generation text is 90% of the country. Who doesn’t have a phone. There is a sense of urgency save the fonts, abbreviate, make the point and move on. This paralleled with materialism promotes a rather shallow view of the world. Which I sense a growing weariness towards. A 150 people turned up to a meeting in Bray which was poorly advertised. This was a GIY meeting Grow It Yourself. I am hopeful this symbolises a move toward a deeper meaningfull thoughts and actions.