Is technology making us less creative?
Technology has the most important part in our lives. We use it in our works in our study and many more. Some people would agree that technology reduce the children creativity, others would disagree.Nowadays people are not using their brain and depending upon technology which is made by some others brain. (eg- Doing simple calculations people use Calculators.)There were times when people used to spend their time in creative activities, with their family and friends, but today whenever we are idle and feel bored, we just pick up our smartphone, laptop or tablet and start playing games or enter in the fake world of social media. Computers and other such devices we given to us for making our life easier, but too much dependency on such devices has brought us to present alarming situation.Computers have been trained to paint pictures and compose music, but they have not yet mastered creative cognition—thinking divergently, going back and forth between conventional and unconventional thinking, making errors, and deciding on the best, most useful response, given a particular situation. On this level, creativity can be seen as intelligence that is emergent from serendipitous error. But this isn't how we program computers—we want them to be error-free. As Conclusion, i feel technology is making us lazy as well as less intelligent. The amount we depend on technology today is unravel-able and this rudimentary conundrum has to be avoided. Even a simple calculation has to be done by a calculator nowadays, not our mind.
What are some lesser known Gmail tips?
Just found out about this little nifty gmail feature found on google Gmail that will be useful to many Quora members:Quote:Using your Gmail address that can give you greater control over your inbox and save you some time and headache. When you choose a Gmail address, you actually get more than just "yourusername@gmail.com." Here are two different ways you can modify your Gmail address and still get your mail:Append a plus ("+") sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.Insert one or several dots (".") anywhere in your email address. Gmail doesn't recognize periods as characters in addresses -- we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com. (We understand that there has been some confusion about this in the past, but to settle it once and for all, you can indeed receive mail at all the variations with dots.)For me, the real value in being able to manipulate your email address is that it makes it really easy to filter on those variants. For example you could use hikingfan+bank@gmail.com when you sign up for online banking and then set up a filterto automatically star, archive or label emails addressed to hikingfan+bank.You can also use this when you register for a service and think they might share your information. For example, I added "+donation" when I gave money to a political organization once, and now when I see emails from other groups to that address, I know how they got it. Solution: filtered to auto-delete.—————————————————————————————————————More nifty online business ideas plus some of the best online money making businesses that work, check out my profileNigel Clarkson