How Smartphones Hijack Our Mind Analysis

Do you ever realise how attached we are to cell phones and how much we are dependant on them? Sadly most people do not realise this dependability that they have towards these devices, however Nicholas Carr, the author of “How Smartphones Hijack Our Mind,” took this into account and created an argument using statistics to improve credibility, precise word choice, and cause and effect situations to reiterate how we are being pulled into the devices. Carr included numerous experiments and statistics on how smartphones can impair our ability to think or focus. One of the experiments included students in a lecture hall and some had their phones while others did not, the aim was to see which student scored the highest between the two parties. The results of the experiment showed that “Students who didn’t bring their phones to class scored a full letter grade higher”(page …show more content…
Humans are so attached to smartphones that when we “hear [our] phone ring but are unable to answer it”(page 1 line 25) the body is actually negatively impacted causing our blood pressure to spike, our pulse quickens, and our problem solving skills decline. The attachment to our smartphones is causing us to have health risks when we aren’t around them. Secondly Carr included a saying about how our dependability to technology causes our “intellect to weaken”(page 1 line 17) People’s intellect is already low enough and with the addition of technology our intellect is going even lower. Finally Carr includes one more cause and effect that proves people’s problem with technology: “When we constrict our capacity for reasoning and recall or transfer those skills to a gadget, we sacrifice our ability to turn information into knowledge”(page 3 line 122) That being said we are losing what makes us human, such as the ability of being able to obtain and apprehend knowledge, further proving that the article’s argument is well