Impact of technology on human’s critically thinking
Technology is the most pervasive industry in today’s world and it has profound impact on people’s lives. The more advanced technology becomes, the more it seems to have control over their lives. In the essay “Does The Internet Make You Dumber?” by Nikolas Carr and “The Fakebook Generation” by Alice Mathias, the authors write that technology, especially the internet, distracts people deeply. It is detrimental for damaging people’s ability to focus and wasting amount of time. Technology seems to give people convenience and entertainment, but it damages their ability to think and to judge.
People‘s ability to pay attention and contemplate are decreasing during the process of technology using. Nicholas Carr states in his essay: “The Net, with its constant distractions and interruptions, is also turning us into scattered and superficial thinkers.” (Carr page 217) Internet users can find it hard to stay focused .While they are surfing the …show more content…
It is more and more common that people like to do more pleasurable things instead of less pleasurable ones or addict to do any non-academic activities to put the academic tasks off. Email, Video Game and Facebook is providing people with constant distractions and excuses to put things off. Alice Mathias writes in her essay: “For young people, Facebook is yet another form of escapism; we can turn our lives into stage dramas and relationships into comedy routines.” (Mathias page 229) Facebook is such an “online theater” that people “customize in a backstage makeup room” for fun. Many people update their Facebook eight times per day. Once they enter in the Facebook world, they couldn’t stop themselves though they know what exactly they should do and when is the deadline of the work. They are fervent to know about other people’s life instead of managing theirs. Actually, the most frequently time people
Technology is the most pervasive industry in today’s world and it has profound impact on people’s lives. The more advanced technology becomes, the more it seems to have control over their lives. In the essay “Does The Internet Make You Dumber?” by Nikolas Carr and “The Fakebook Generation” by Alice Mathias, the authors write that technology, especially the internet, distracts people deeply. It is detrimental for damaging people’s ability to focus and wasting amount of time. Technology seems to give people convenience and entertainment, but it damages their ability to think and to judge.
People‘s ability to pay attention and contemplate are decreasing during the process of technology using. Nicholas Carr states in his essay: “The Net, with its constant distractions and interruptions, is also turning us into scattered and superficial thinkers.” (Carr page 217) Internet users can find it hard to stay focused .While they are surfing the …show more content…
It is more and more common that people like to do more pleasurable things instead of less pleasurable ones or addict to do any non-academic activities to put the academic tasks off. Email, Video Game and Facebook is providing people with constant distractions and excuses to put things off. Alice Mathias writes in her essay: “For young people, Facebook is yet another form of escapism; we can turn our lives into stage dramas and relationships into comedy routines.” (Mathias page 229) Facebook is such an “online theater” that people “customize in a backstage makeup room” for fun. Many people update their Facebook eight times per day. Once they enter in the Facebook world, they couldn’t stop themselves though they know what exactly they should do and when is the deadline of the work. They are fervent to know about other people’s life instead of managing theirs. Actually, the most frequently time people