![]() Then there are the winking corporate mini-logos, which are more familiar to children than national flags or famous authors. There are the "icons" (a word to dwell on) of the iPod or Windows, those cute and reassuring little pictures that perform the role of Chinese ideograms rather than western culture's words. It is more about the way they absorb information and entertainment. This is not just the obvious ageing person's whinge because my kids can sort out computer or digital camera problems that baffle me. It is most striking when you watch children and young adults. This is probably one of the great shifts in the story of modern humans but we take it almost for granted. In just a couple of decades, we have slipped away from a culture based essentially on words to one based essentially on images, or pictures. There has been a change in our environment that is so all-embracing and in a way so banal that we barely notice it. She asked a question that affects all of us, yet which I have never heard discussed by mainstream politicians: is technology changing our brains?The context is the clicking, bleeping, flashing world of screens. One such came this week from the neuro-biologist Susan Greenfield. Sometimes the House of Lords throws out speeches so interesting and radical, that you simply cannot imagine them being made in the Commons. By Jackie Ashley (THE GUARDIAN, 24/04/06):
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