In “Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark ages”, by Maggie Jackson, it addresses the problem of technology and how technology is keeping us from attaining knowledge. This paper also talks about how we are approaching a new dark ages. Maggie Jackson believes that we are too controlled by our phones and the internet and we are only able to get a surface level of information without ever actually attaining knowledge. She believes that because of this we are approaching a period of downfall because of our over attraction to technology and our need for it. I agree that our society is becoming overly dependent on technology, however I cannot agree with his remarks regarding the dark ages and how we are losing our capacity to retain
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In the essay she says that the dark ages are a “distinct turning point in history, a period of flux that often produces great technological and other gains yet ultimately results in a declining civilization and a desert like spell of collective forgetting.” (547) This interpretation of the dark ages is not entirely accurate even though she does mention that it is a turning point in history she later goes on to say that it led to a time of decline in civilization. The term the dark ages has multiple connotations when referring to the middle ages. One of which is because of multiple diseases and wars going on none of which deal with the advances in knowledge. Maggie believes that the “overall living standards slipped dramatically, and advances in carving, building, the arts, and farming slipped away as Greece entered a five-hundred year long dark age.” (547) Another interpretation of the term dark ages refers to how historians don’t know too much of what happened during this period. Hence creating a time without much knowledge of what happened. In actuality the dark age was a time of cultural revival and a period of technological innovation. Paving the way for the invention of multiple important technological breakthroughs. Maggie believes that the dark ages caused people to lose their ability to retain knowledge when it actually it was a period of growth in knowledge not forgetfulness. Technology
In the essay she says that the dark ages are a “distinct turning point in history, a period of flux that often produces great technological and other gains yet ultimately results in a declining civilization and a desert like spell of collective forgetting.” (547) This interpretation of the dark ages is not entirely accurate even though she does mention that it is a turning point in history she later goes on to say that it led to a time of decline in civilization. The term the dark ages has multiple connotations when referring to the middle ages. One of which is because of multiple diseases and wars going on none of which deal with the advances in knowledge. Maggie believes that the “overall living standards slipped dramatically, and advances in carving, building, the arts, and farming slipped away as Greece entered a five-hundred year long dark age.” (547) Another interpretation of the term dark ages refers to how historians don’t know too much of what happened during this period. Hence creating a time without much knowledge of what happened. In actuality the dark age was a time of cultural revival and a period of technological innovation. Paving the way for the invention of multiple important technological breakthroughs. Maggie believes that the dark ages caused people to lose their ability to retain knowledge when it actually it was a period of growth in knowledge not forgetfulness. Technology