(ZT) How technology will change our mind and brain?

An article on my favorite Chinese online community "cchere", discussing how technology changes our minds, our ways to use our brain or even our brain itself. The article is written in Chinese. 


科技改变大脑 （上）
科技改变大脑（下）

My abstract is as follows:

• Part 1: how our brain/mind can be changed by new technologies
• It is found Nietzsche changed his writing style after using typewritter
• Google enable us to access to vast amount information so easily that it is unnecessary for us to memorize many things. As a result, our skills of memorization is impaired.
• After more and more reading on the Web, we lose our patient to read a long article from top to bottom: we keep jump from one point to another and all we remember is a pile of small pieces of information rather the whole set of them. Consequently, our capability of reading and understanding degenerates. 
• Our brain can be change due to our style of using it (Neuroplasticity)
•  Part 2: how control our world by directly using our brain and how we can control our brain
• we have already technology to issue some simple command using our brainwave, which is mostly used by disabled person
• DARPA's project "Silent Talk" on using brainwaves to communicate in battlefield
• DARPA's project on repairing our brain, which can be used by soldiers in battlefield
• 2008 NSA has a report "Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies"
• Will the scenarios in "Matrix" become true? Very likely.