Subtle Wisdom

Facebook won’t always exist. Sure, a company named Facebook will exist and sure, it will have a social network that is hosted on Facebook.com. But Facebook as our go-to social network has a finite lifespan, surely.Cannot go on and on like this! Like Google, Yahoo, and even Amazon, Facebook will have to recast/remake?? itself as the internet landscape changes. Google started as a better search engine. As the internet grew and exploded in use, Google shifted to providing a huge set of cloud services, trying to be the provider of your core internet experience through apps such as Google Documents, Gmail, Google Maps and what not?? Now Google is shifting gears again by moving offline with Google Glasses, Street View, and Driverless Car. Or there is Yahoo, which started as an internet directory but branched out into search and home page services. Today Yahoo provides a home page for millionsof monthly unique visitors and remains profitable despite its ever-shrinking market share.Lookin...

Being online does change your brain, but so does making a cup of tea. A better question to ask is what parts of the brain are regular internet users using. This modern age has brought with it a new set of worries. As well as watching our weight and worrying about our souls, we now have to worry about our brain fitness too – if you believe the headlines. Is instant messaging eroding the attention centres of our brains? Are Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools preventing you from forming normal human bonds? And don’t forget email – apparently it releases the same addictive neurochemicals as crack cocaine! Plenty of folk have been quick to capitalise on this neuro-anxiety. Amazon’s virtual shelves groan with brain-training books and games. (I confess I am not entirely innocent myself). You can fight the cognitive flab, these games promise, if you work that grey matter like a muscle. But is this true? Are sudoku puzzles the only thing stopping the species turning into a horde ...