Is technology making us loose our creativity?  | |  Last evening, I had a discussion with a good friend who had just completed a training session with a group of techies. As part of the training she had conducted an exercise for the participants to loosen up and get to express thier creativities and also understand & express different kinds of emotions. The participants were just not easily able to express thier creativities and emotions related to the same easily. On the other hand the responses were excellent whenever the questions were related to logic or testing thier IQ. I initially passed it of as maybe a geek thing, them being techies. But on reflecting on the situation a little more, I realised differently.
If your ask most young kids today on what thier hobbies are they would talk about internet surfing and playing video games. Manyof them spend most of them time around what we conside our technological innovations being the internet, the mobile phone and so on.
There seems to be a diminishing interest in what we would have been considered as creativity and hobbies in general, something which uses our right part of the brain. Fewer and fewer people seem to be showing interest in hobbies like model building, paper craft or other artistic hobbies like painting and so on.
Am I right in this assumption, or do you think differently.
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| | | | | | | | 1.  suren20 (129) | 3 months ago |  You are thinking in right way.Keep it up.
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| | 2.  rogue13xmen13 (5250) | 3 months ago |  No, actually I think that we are being more creative thanks to new technology, we are seeing things and coming up with things that have never been done before.
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| | | 3. proff124 (239) | 3 months ago |  You are right.we spend more time on internet and other technological activities.so we never think about many things which are very important for us .so we are going to be dull minded due to technology.
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| | 4. Qaeyious (662)  | 3 months ago |  Back in my adolescence during the 70s almost everyone dabbled with poetry at some time, or they drew. I was around many who did the same thing during the 80s. Now that we have this technology to simulate killing peace officers and dealing drugs, (Yes, I know, there are many more games that are more wholesome - unfortunately they are not as popular.) yes there would be some that would rather spend all their time doing that, but I highly doubt it would be the majority. I can't prove it, I have no studies.
I did just googled "studies video games creativity" and the first page is filled with a study that "Video games can make one more creative if the spark is right."
If one does just one thing, like only doing video games, or texting, or surfing, yes, that would be a consequence. But I don't think many people actually live their lives like that. There is also sports, and music (how many kids have guitars? That alone has to be astronomical)
Silly me - of course I am talking about the United States culture - I have no idea how other countries are doing these days.
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 alokn99 (1508) | 3 months ago | You are right about people having guitars or pursuing music as a hobby and trying to be creative in that sense.The percentage of people spending time doing creative things or on thier hobbies which are non technological seems to be reducing. I am under the impression that people spending too much of thier time on say the internet just browsing around or playing games are to some extent diminshing thier natural creative instinct. | |
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