PM Narendra Modi Accuses Google Of Spoiling His Reading Habits

Compared to around a decade ago, life today is way different. There was no smartphone or tablet for children to carry around. People didn’t text while family gathering including board games.

Everything has changed after smartphones, along with the internet, were invented. And even the Prime Minister of India has also gotten caught in the evolution of technology.

On November 24, at the Mann Ki Baat 59^th edition, which is a radio talk show where PM Modi often talks about his experiences to inspire the nation, PM Modi was having a conversation with a group of students.

On this specific broadcast, a student called Akhil from Rohtak, Haryana had a question for the Prime Minister. He asked if the PM ever had time to watch films or read books during his busy schedule.

PM Modi then responded, saying he had always been interested in reading books instead of watching movies or TV. But he had watched the Discovery Channel.

He then said he couldn’t read much these days partly because Google had spoilt us to the point that we could constantly rely on it.

What he said is true, though since Google has made lives a lot easier with information at the tips of our fingers, whether it is finding a world’s meaning of a complicated scientific theory’s definition. Google can help you with all of that.

However, when we are trying to pay our attention to the books that we read, it is our smartphones that make us distracted. Whether it is a message from your friends or some advertisements from some annoying apps, just one sound from the phone could break us from our concentration.

A recent study from researchers at King’s College London, Oxford University, Western Sydney University, and Harvard University suggested that our phones are tricking us into believing that we are more intelligent than we actually are, gradually replacing our ability to remember things.