Are CAPTCHAs Getting More Difficult?

September 27, 2011
By: Dr. Shawn DuBravac
Blog, nature of technology

CAPTCHAs are a challenge-response test used to help decipher human responses from that of a computer in order to prevent automated software from performing actions which degrade the quality of service. Recently I’ve noticed that CAPTCHAs are getting increasingly difficult. Is this a sign of tech evolving faster than the human mind?

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Dr. Shawn DuBravac is author of the New York Times Best Seller Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, Live, and Communicate, which explores how the world’s mass adoption of digital technologies portends the beginning of a new era for humanity in the realms of business, healthcare, finance, transportation and culture.

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