Today everyone talks about how technology can be very harmful to you, but hardly anyone says anything about how technology is beneficial to people. They only look at the cons of it and never even praise their good consequences. This biased perspective is unjust and does not give technology the credit it deserves. In the documentary “Digital Nation” and the articles “Brain Candy” and “Grand Theft Auto May Improve Decision-Making Skills,” they all prove how technology is essential and helpful to our daily lives.
Two friends who created Digital Nation, a documentary that examines how technology influences people's daily lives and how it impacts them, visit Manhattan, VA, to meet a soldier who is getting treated for post-traumatic stress disorder. By using the virtual world and making the patient play like he is in an actual war, they help tone down his stress level. As time goes on "their brain is able to say, OK, this is uncomfortable, this is unpleasant, …show more content…
They believe that games will have an awful impact on their children. The article Grand Theft Auto May Improve Decision-Making Skills by Charles Q. Choi dives into how video games can enhance decision-making skills. Nearly all people who “denounce video games… haven’t actually played them” (Gladwell 3). Research shows that people who play “action video games have faster reaction times” (Choi 3) than the ones who don’t. People can argue that the decisions are probably not that accurate, however, another experiment was performed on 11 games and 12 non-gamers. The gamers were able to “make judgments faster… and without sacrificing accuracy” (Choi). Contrary to the opinions of a large number of people who never played video games before and criticize it, this shows that how video games can have positive effects on people. As shown above, technology such as video games, are not entirely unpleasant for you. In fact they are very
Two friends who created Digital Nation, a documentary that examines how technology influences people's daily lives and how it impacts them, visit Manhattan, VA, to meet a soldier who is getting treated for post-traumatic stress disorder. By using the virtual world and making the patient play like he is in an actual war, they help tone down his stress level. As time goes on "their brain is able to say, OK, this is uncomfortable, this is unpleasant, …show more content…
They believe that games will have an awful impact on their children. The article Grand Theft Auto May Improve Decision-Making Skills by Charles Q. Choi dives into how video games can enhance decision-making skills. Nearly all people who “denounce video games… haven’t actually played them” (Gladwell 3). Research shows that people who play “action video games have faster reaction times” (Choi 3) than the ones who don’t. People can argue that the decisions are probably not that accurate, however, another experiment was performed on 11 games and 12 non-gamers. The gamers were able to “make judgments faster… and without sacrificing accuracy” (Choi). Contrary to the opinions of a large number of people who never played video games before and criticize it, this shows that how video games can have positive effects on people. As shown above, technology such as video games, are not entirely unpleasant for you. In fact they are very