If you are like me some times keeping up with all the changes in society and technology make my eyes cross.  Still, I need to keep working and viable in the job market until what feels like about 100 so I keep learning. Blogging, Photoshop, video editing, digital you name it, social media and the list goes on and on. Whew! I'll stop freaking myself out and see that there is an upside of course to all the constant change and here it is, scientists have discovered that 50 is the new 42 because the brains of middle-aged people are getting sharper and younger to keep up with the demands of modern technology. People over age 50 are scoring increasingly better on tests of cognitive function and it's because of the increased mental stimulation of computers and mobile phones.

Although experts have previously worried that technology was causing people to stop thinking, in fact, it appears that the mental skills needed to operate complex gadgets are making people smarter.   For example, the average person now needs to remember 10 passwords a day to access work computers, open email, use internet banking, pay online bills or log on to social networks.

Now don't get me wrong I still think that multitasking is over rated and sometimes I feel over loaded with information but keeping all my buttons and pins longer is a nice perk.

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