Smartphones, tablets and other gadgets¹ have trained our brains to process more information, tricking us into thinking time is passing faster than it really is, according to a recent study.

 

Even just reading a simple advertisement, subjects perceived time as passing more quickly, than compared to the other group that a long monologue² from a ‘real’ book.

 

"It's almost as though we're trying to emulate³ the technology and be speedier and more efficient," James Cook University researcher Dr Aoife McLoughlin said.

 

"It seems like there's something about technology itself that primes us to increase that pacemaker inside of us that measures the passing of time."

 

The findings prove what most have known all along: we need to stop and smell the roses.

 

In order to stop time from rushing by we need to unplug from the World Wide Web each week to slow down our pacemakers, the study suggested.

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