Re-Wired

I have just discovered that our house  needs to be re- wired.  I know there will be dust and disruption but the end result will be that this lovely 1930′s home will have a whole new level of energy coursing through it.  Happy I  am to think of that.  Then I come across yet another  article about how the internet is rewiring our brains and also a book: ” Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the way they learn’ by Larry D Rosen.

I begin to wonder at the speed with which language develops to cope with new social behaviour.  Rewired in these instances is about the neurological pathways subverted by hyperlinks and  the search for instant gratification and about the radically different learning styles which the internet and modern technology offers the younger generation.

I think of the way words change and mutate. Words like spam which, as I grew up was a yucky pink meat out of a rectangular tin which my mother fried until crisp to make it palatable. Now it is something equally distasteful yet so very different: the unsolicited and often annoying messages on social networking sites.

I love my computer  and my iphone but perhaps I should consider this re wiring an opportunity.  The computers will be in boxes locked away from the dust and I can try to digitally detox my brain. See if the old ways of thinking and reasoning, the memory and levels of concentration are still working as they should be!