How does technology change us, and is it bad In today’s modern society technology has become an important part of many people’s daily lives and unplugging is difficult. The problems that come with the oversaturation of technology and information have started to become apparent within today’s society. Humans are addicts for anything that seems good not knowing when to quit or how to self-moderate. How big of a problem technology is for us going forward is unknown, but we still need to look at our current relationship and think about how in control we are. Richard Restak in his article “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era” believes that we have become completely dependent on technology for our current needs, and it has started to
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While things have definitely changed how bad these changes are is the important question, is our natural adaption good or is it costing us in ways we do not know. . “The absence of time to listen isn’t simply the results of increased workloads but from a reorganization of our brain. Our brain is being forced to manage increasing amounts of information within shorter and shorter intervals.” (Restak). While our brain is certainly being changed it is just adapting to its new surroundings, things have changed since we were hunters and gatherers the brain needs to deal with new things. Going forward this reorganization could benefit us while sacrificing some things. “The offline world is now utterly defined by networks, too, from the pace of our work to the flow of our money. You can look up from the screen, but there is no way to escape the digital.” (Samuel). How our society functions has been constantly changing with technology: communication, transportation, the economy, and even our interactions have been changing. These changes have mostly been good improving efficiency and productivity massively compared to even a hundred years ago. While the change technology brings can at least in part be good some changes are bad. “Almost certainly, downtime lets the brain go over experiences it’s had, solidify them and turn them into permanent long-term memories, said Loren Frank, assistant professor in the department of physiology at the university, where he specializes in learning and memory.” (Richtel). Technology can affect our memory in terrible ways, preventing the storage of important ideas. Technology has been changing our society for hundreds of years and recently has started to affect our mind too. Just because something changes doesn’t make it bad it just becomes different, how it affects us later is what determines if it was bad. Right
While things have definitely changed how bad these changes are is the important question, is our natural adaption good or is it costing us in ways we do not know. . “The absence of time to listen isn’t simply the results of increased workloads but from a reorganization of our brain. Our brain is being forced to manage increasing amounts of information within shorter and shorter intervals.” (Restak). While our brain is certainly being changed it is just adapting to its new surroundings, things have changed since we were hunters and gatherers the brain needs to deal with new things. Going forward this reorganization could benefit us while sacrificing some things. “The offline world is now utterly defined by networks, too, from the pace of our work to the flow of our money. You can look up from the screen, but there is no way to escape the digital.” (Samuel). How our society functions has been constantly changing with technology: communication, transportation, the economy, and even our interactions have been changing. These changes have mostly been good improving efficiency and productivity massively compared to even a hundred years ago. While the change technology brings can at least in part be good some changes are bad. “Almost certainly, downtime lets the brain go over experiences it’s had, solidify them and turn them into permanent long-term memories, said Loren Frank, assistant professor in the department of physiology at the university, where he specializes in learning and memory.” (Richtel). Technology can affect our memory in terrible ways, preventing the storage of important ideas. Technology has been changing our society for hundreds of years and recently has started to affect our mind too. Just because something changes doesn’t make it bad it just becomes different, how it affects us later is what determines if it was bad. Right