Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Over the years we have ran to Google for help. Maybe it was for how to cook a favorite dish or maybe it was for a problem that we ran into that we didn't know how to handle, whatever the case maybe us as humans have ran to Google over time for all our problems. We have become so comfortable using the internet that we no longer know how to do simple things in life; for example, how to work an elementary problem because the internet spoon feeds it to us. When we wake up, the first thing some of us check is our phone. Google is always keeping us updated on news; it could be a sale or something that might be going on in the world itself. Google now tells us when there's an important date, and it also reminds us when …show more content…
Basically the internet rerouting our memory and we can remember where we got the information from, but not necessarily what it is. Nowadays we don't attempt nor try to restore the information we find off the internet. Our brain rely on Google for most of our memory than anything. ‘’A study suggests that 90 percent of us are suffering from digital amnesia’’. Most likely half of us can't even remember our friends’ number because our phone memorize it for us. Technology is so advance that with every call we make our cell phones save it. A study from Fairfield University stated in 2003, found that taking photos reduces our memories. They had participants go to a museum and take photos of each object and some that simply observed and founded out that the ones who took photos remember a fewer object and details than the ones that observed. One could speculate that this extends to personal memories, as constantly looking at the world through the lens of our smartphone camera may result in us trusting our smartphones to store our memories for us. This way, we pay less attention to life itself and become worse at remembering events from our own lives.The internet isn't the only thing that has an effect on people's memory but technology itself. According to Nichola Carr, the author of The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember and The Glass Cage: Where Automation is Taking US, says that, ‘’We’re missing the real danger, that human memory is not the as the memory in a computer: It's what we make connections with like what we know or what we feel which gives rise to personal knowledge. Believe it or not but not using Google makes us stupid too. At UCLA a study in 2008, Memory and Aging Center looked at how Internet usage affected not just our memory but our cognition as well. Dr. Small split a group of
Over the years we have ran to Google for help. Maybe it was for how to cook a favorite dish or maybe it was for a problem that we ran into that we didn't know how to handle, whatever the case maybe us as humans have ran to Google over time for all our problems. We have become so comfortable using the internet that we no longer know how to do simple things in life; for example, how to work an elementary problem because the internet spoon feeds it to us. When we wake up, the first thing some of us check is our phone. Google is always keeping us updated on news; it could be a sale or something that might be going on in the world itself. Google now tells us when there's an important date, and it also reminds us when …show more content…
Basically the internet rerouting our memory and we can remember where we got the information from, but not necessarily what it is. Nowadays we don't attempt nor try to restore the information we find off the internet. Our brain rely on Google for most of our memory than anything. ‘’A study suggests that 90 percent of us are suffering from digital amnesia’’. Most likely half of us can't even remember our friends’ number because our phone memorize it for us. Technology is so advance that with every call we make our cell phones save it. A study from Fairfield University stated in 2003, found that taking photos reduces our memories. They had participants go to a museum and take photos of each object and some that simply observed and founded out that the ones who took photos remember a fewer object and details than the ones that observed. One could speculate that this extends to personal memories, as constantly looking at the world through the lens of our smartphone camera may result in us trusting our smartphones to store our memories for us. This way, we pay less attention to life itself and become worse at remembering events from our own lives.The internet isn't the only thing that has an effect on people's memory but technology itself. According to Nichola Carr, the author of The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember and The Glass Cage: Where Automation is Taking US, says that, ‘’We’re missing the real danger, that human memory is not the as the memory in a computer: It's what we make connections with like what we know or what we feel which gives rise to personal knowledge. Believe it or not but not using Google makes us stupid too. At UCLA a study in 2008, Memory and Aging Center looked at how Internet usage affected not just our memory but our cognition as well. Dr. Small split a group of