Technology And Technology

In his essay “Does the Internet Make You Dumber?”, Nicholas Carr argues that technology leaves us unable to be as thorough in our previous mental abilities and distracts us, through changes to our mental pathways and biological mechanisms. Nicholas Carr uses the appeal of data, the frightening effects of living in the digital age, and his own conclusions from his exhaustive research to structure his examination.

Over the years, technology has developed into something that we cannot live without. Society is constantly being dictated and reshaped by the newest technology. In Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, he expounded on the uncomfortable sense that someone, or something was tinkering with his brain. He realized that he’s not thinking the way he used to. Additionally, he explains how our brains aren’t familiar with critical thinking anymore. He also introduces the idea that the Internet is doing more harm to us than good. I believe Carr’s ideas on the negative effects of the Internet are well founded. The validity surrounds us daily.

In his essay, “Is Google Making us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr addresses the fears that many people share about the World Wide Web: that it is rerouting our brains, making it difficult to concentrate effectively. Carr uses personal experiences about his loss of concentration that has become more evident after using the internet. Rather than reading texts in-depth, our brains have become accustomed to skimming over information. Carr’s view on technology is that by relying on knowledge that we are being handed, we are becoming humans with artificial thoughts. He fears the internet could be a monster living in our homes. He is afraid of technology making us an indolent race. I think that the internet can make us lazy, but that doesn’t necessarily correlate to becoming “stupid.” Carr only focuses on the negative altercations that the internet has on our lives. Due to this, he comes off as oblivious to the transformation that we are undergoing with this new technology. The internet is making us change our focus from absorbing time consuming information. Instead, we have shifted our attention to learning information in a timely manner. Over the years, more ways to access the internet have emerged, opening up a whole new world for us. Instead of socializing and working in print, we are delving into a “visual world.” Alternatively, we are being introduced into being able to personally create, develop and consume information. Hearing information from a teacher is being substituted for

Throughout the course of history, humans have made great technological advancements. During the Renaissance, the printing press had revolutionized all of Europe; the accessibility of books had become universal, and people learned how to read and write. Because of the printing press, people became smarter and humanity had made a huge advancement into the modern world. In the 21st century, however, there is a growing issue; even though humans are becoming smarter, the human brain has suffered a negative impact from the internet. In the book, "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains," by Nicholas Carr, Carr discusses how the internet completely changes the way people think. Because of the internet, our ability to think deeply,

In Nicholas Carr’s news article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (2008), he expresses his concerns on how technology is changing the mental capacity of our minds. The author first provides anecdotal evidence by giving relevant quotes from reputable sources, then he introduces notable historical trends as examples to support his claim, and to conclude he challenges his readers to rethink their views on the internet. His purpose is to inform readers on the negative effects of using the internet. He seems to have a younger, more tech-savvy audience in his mind, as they are exposed to technology at a young age. One can agree with Carr because as technology such as the internet evolve, our minds adapt at the cost our cognitive abilities.

Technology has become a powerful resource that changes our brain’s activity. Nicholas Carr, the author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and a graduate from Harvard University, believes that technology will have an overall negative impact on humans. However, Clive Thompson, the author of “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better” and a freelance contributor to well-known publications like the New York Times Magazine, disagrees with Carr. Both authors agree that technology can be efficient and help accomplish tasks, but Carr also accredits technology for decreasing the amount of concentration and contemplation possible by the average human. Furthermore, Carr concludes that making the internet as our primary knowledge source will decrease our ability to read books, long passages, and will diminish our learning experience. However, Thompson conceives that humans will adapt to the latest changes and retain what is valuable from the venerable times.

When were using technology like computers, tablets, and our cell-phones will easily get us distracted. If we're distracted we remember less, learn less, work less, and understand less. According to the article B-C its states “If we're distracted we understand less, remember less, and learn less.That's the problem with Google and with the internet in general. when we use our computers and are cell phones all the time, we are always distracted.” Technology is making us the way we are today and will impact us in the long run. When google is giving us all this helpful information it really is makes us shallow. Without technology their will be no cars, trains, tv`s, or computers. With technology we have more and faster ways to transport to places. If we're really into developing our minds we should turn off our computers and their cell phones in start thinking with their heads not with

The internet is changing our brain for the worse. While we get to communicate with each other better and have a lot of information at our fingertips, we lose many important things as well. We are quick to congratulate the success of Google and Apple that we miss the real danger. Nicholas Carr shows us how we aren't seeing the real danger of the internet and he tells us what we are sacrificing for the internet. He explains to us how the internet is making us easily distracted, removes our ability to think linearly, and weakens our capability to learn.

Another aspect of our lives that technology is destroying, is our brain cognition/memory. We have been forced to have a mentality that when we don’t understand something we can just google search it later. We lack the motivation to take notes and focus on what’s being said because we rely so heavily on the internet to fill in the empty spots of our brain. In if we don’t understand something, we will search it up later. There is no longer a reason to focus and take notes because we rely so heavily on the internet to get us what we need.

Technology is changing the way we think, the effects of technology is complicated. “Thompson’s point is that ‘artificial intelligence’ — defined as machines that can cerebrate on their own just like or better than humans — is not yet (and may never be) as puissant as ‘intelligence amplification,’ the symbiotic smarts that occur when human cognition is augmented by a close interaction with computers.” (Walter, 2013) Technology impacts our brain, it impacts our ability to learn and think it pushes us towards new forms of technology and pulling us away from the old ways of technology. Technology gives us a better way to feel connected with what our brains are trying to understand, Thompson mentions that the key word ‘mindfulness’ is important, and how you should focus on how you could let the information sunk in. As technology still develops it opens up more ways on how it could be useful to people keeping them, and their brains connected to the idea of technology and the importance of it, but relying so heavily on the new technology has created a generation that revolves around

"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" By Nicholas Carr informs us on specific techniques, technology continues to negatively affect our brains. This article starts out by talking about how the Internet in general is a resource we could use for practically everything. In result, all people alike are becoming more and more dependant upon it in increasing work productivity, reading, and writing. This article also claims about how technology plays a huge distraction in our lives. Traditional media has to live up to the expectation their audiences have of everything being a "shortcut". People in general, are becoming too use being in control to access information faster and more efficiently. According to this article, technology has started a mental massacre to think that more important than people. Google in general is trying to invent an artificial brain to replace our "slow" brains we already love and thrive from. In the world where technology is put first, what will happen to loved ones and

Another study by Mr. Merzenich, Professor of University of California in San Francisco found out that the brain is adaptable to whatever situation it is put in, therefore it can adapt to our technology habit which could be deadly to our intellectual lives. In other words, the individual “become signal processing units, quickly shepherding disjointed bits of info and then out of short term memory (Nicholas Carr).” Patricia Greenfield, a leading developmental psychologist, discovered that the “internet strengthened visual-spatial intelligence”. But for what cost, but a “new weakness in higher-order cognitive processes,” which included critical thinking, imagination and abstract vocabulary (Nicholas Carr).

Have you ever thought about the effect technology is having on your mental abilities such as your brain? Well I didn’t until I came across “Is google making us stupid.” Never have I thought the internet and what it was doing to me would affect me from an academic standpoint. Now a days no real effort is being put into research or writing or even reading. Google is making us stupider because it is causing our memory become very lazy, it is causing the individual to lose knowledge, and lastly it is causing the individual to have a short attention span. The essay Carr wrote with his strong introduction, and different sources used convinced me of the dangers that technology is having on a individuals brain.

Have your parents ever told you that TV will rot your brain, or pulled a,”Back in my day” on you? Ridiculous, right? Well, I believe that your parents might be right. Today, I will present evidence that supports my claim that technology is making people’s IQs drop considerably . So first we'll talk about how technology is making us dumb is because of the decreasing of our ability to think deeply. Next I'll tell you what environment you must be in to enter deep thinking.Last but not least i`ll talk about why it is almost impossible to not get distracted while doing work on a computer.

We are so dependent on technology that we don’t see how it actually affects us. Technology in a way is making us dumber, lazier, and it also has its positive things like improving our reflex. No one would have guessed that what we created to make our life easier, would be affecting our brains. Now that technology is getting easier to use, everyone will be looking for the easiest and fastest way to solve problems and will end up endangering the world. The new generation is already lazy enough and with the improvements that technology is having, it will end up making them lazier, not all of them because there’s people who actually take advantage of technology and use it to help them improve their knowledge. But we can also see that many students don’t study anymore, they just look for everything they need on google, and this will eventually affect them. And if we don’t do anything about this, the future generation will be at stake, they will be looking for the easiest and fastest way to solve problems and will end up making their future harder. This issue will matter to the people who see that technology is making other people stupid, but it isn’t always like that, it depends on the person who is using it. People will get dumber and people will get smarter because of it.