What changes has the internet caused to humans as a species? For a few decades the use of the internet has become widespread in our society, today we have superpowers that a few years ago would have been classified as science fiction and a few centuries ago would have been simply magic, conversations with anyone in any part of the world seeing us face to face, news from around the world live, access to most information and knowledge gathered from our species instantly "free" in addition to an economic revolution thanks to blockchain technology.

“Technology has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, "Aiken writes in his book The Cyber Effect (2016)

We have the privilege of living in a time of very profound changes in humanity, we are at a point of no return and all this change happens at great speed, in a matter of a few decades we will be a totally different society, in fact nowadays we are already compared with our ancestors.

“The Internet is becoming the village square of tomorrow's global village. "Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.

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But this evolution goes beyond the external aspects, not only affects the way in which people live, but also changes the way our brain works, the Internet intervened in the evolution of man as a biological species.

“We know that technology is changing our lives. It is also changing our brains, "writes Dr. Gary Small in his book iBrain.

Evolution, in general, is the adaptation to the environment, which is constantly changing, our brains are adapting to the use of the network in ways still unknown, but little by little thanks to scientists like Dr. Gary Small Director of the Center Research on Memory and Aging, at the Semel Institute for Neurosciences and Human Behavior, at the University of California Los Angeles, we have discovered that the learning process of new generations is increasingly different from previous generations, the "digital natives" "To be exposed to new technologies since birth has made their brains begin to function, analyze and store information in a different way, exposed to large amounts of data from an early age, obtaining new skills and deteriorating others, leaving us the unknown. What changes will this generate in a few centuries to the human species?

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“The change has been extraordinary. No other technology has developed as quickly and globally as the Internet. It is probably unprecedented in the history of our civilization. "Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.

It is still too early to know what the future holds for us, but in what there is no doubt is in the differences of the new generations with past generations and changes in society in general, we have all been influenced by the use of new technologies. Few places in the world are disconnected but in a few years there will be no place on earth where we are offline.

Sources and references:

• Fucsia.co. (2018). El internet reescribe nuestro cerebro. [online] Available at: https://www.fucsia.co/belleza-y-salud/articulo/el-internet-reescribe-nuestro-cerebro/27716 [Accessed 17 Nov. 2018].

• Mundifrases.com. (2018). Frases sobre internet – Mundi Frases .com. [online] Available at: https://www.mundifrases.com/tema/internet/?page=3#start-content [Accessed 17 Nov. 2018].

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