Smart devices have put all of the world’s information at our fingertips. The benefits of this development is obvious, but what are the drawbacks?

Technology has shrunk the world into a global village. It enables us to know an incident in any corner of the world within seconds. Intelligent gadgets

such

as phones and laptops have enabled a portable use of internet resources.

Although

these advantages are undeniably useful, there is

also

a need to discuss the unavoidable disadvantages that come as by-products to

this

development.

Firstly

, the widespread use of devices

such

as cellular phones

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decreased our reliability on our memory.

Thus

, we don’t tap into our memory faculty as we used to do just a decade ago.

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, many people used to remember all digits of a contact number just a few years back. Now they are so dependent on digital devices that they can’t even remember one contact without it. If the device is lost, people may find themselves in a precarious position.

Secondly

, the dire need

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these gadgets has resulted in attention deficiency and addiction among the younger generation. Despite being informative, not everyone uses technology to acquire knowledge. A great example of

this

would be people’s obsession with social media and toxic news, which only makes them more

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. To summarise, smart devices have indeed changed the way we access information. But their cons seem to be more lingering than their pros. Only with diligent

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proper use of these gadgets. And in most scenarios,

this

is not the case and it costs people their valuable intellectual resources.