How is technology changing our psychology? What the internet has been working in our brains? Over the past few years, technology has become our biggest tools in our lives, improving our life to be more convenient each day and our learning skills of development in critical thinking and analyzing has fallen behind while our visual skills have improved. Nowadays, people are being able to look up for information or seeking for solutions with a just click on the internet. The internet is providing us with plenty of resources, such as learning and sharing information, high academic research, and more opportunity for people to find deeper topics for further information. As the internet becomes increasingly involved into our daily lifestyles, we start to rely on it every day now. We use the internet to connect with friends on social media, Facebook, Twitter, and more. Although access to the internet has allowed us to process information faster, get connected with friends more efficient, but also increased productivity, it is hindering our ability to examine topics and think critically on our own. As the internet continues to become further involved within our daily lifestyles as a society, it is negatively shaping the way we are interpreting information and may cause bad result for our brain. Essentially, the internet and communication technologies are changing our form of intelligence due to relying on the internet which reduce our ability to think critically, our brain to work different and losing the ability to focus. The impact on the internet and communication technologies is not only negatively shaping our ability to interpret information, but altering our brain to visualize more instead of thinking critically. Some experiences I had over the past few years of using the computer and spending hours strolling through online web pages. I feel like my mind isn’t functioning normally anymore, instead it’s changing. My mind or the way I interpret information is not working the way I used to work. I can feel that when I am in class, writing an essay, or even reading a book, I cannot immerse deeply into what I am doing. My concentration on writing an essay or reading a book, often my mind starts to flow off to something else after a few pages. I feel as if I’m always needing to drag my brain back to task that I need to do. I get agitated, lose the ability to think, begin looking for something else. The deep reading that I used to enjoy has become a struggle for me now because the distraction on my smartphone, and the internet has been my primary source, I’ve been relying on Google search to look up for solutions to my question. In our society, the internet is expanding resources for almost available to everyone.
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We can easily find answers on the internet instead of interpreting and think critically on our own. In his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” author Nicholas Carr introduce a topic about google search and the quickest access to the internet is causing our brain to lose the ability to think critically and changing our way of analyzing (2008). Carr writes that the incredibly powerful computing system, is becoming a universal medium, the quickest ways for people to get access to information and get connected to one another in different parts of the world. With the internet, almost everything is available for everyone (2008). We can easily find solutions to problems online and take advantage of the information that the internet provides rather than using our brain to think. In fact, this intellectual technology like computer and smartphone is the solutions in our daily life, it’s intended to become our GPS, “our clock,” “our printing press” and “our typewriter”, “our calculator” and “our phone connector”, and “our radio and TV” (2008). Carr illustrates that these intellectual technologies has become the purpose in our life, people are being able to distribute the solutions that the internet provided with just a few Google searches, and some links will pop out. Carr also writes that our form of ability to read and to think critically in the reading has constantly taken us off the topics due to
We can easily find answers on the internet instead of interpreting and think critically on our own. In his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” author Nicholas Carr introduce a topic about google search and the quickest access to the internet is causing our brain to lose the ability to think critically and changing our way of analyzing (2008). Carr writes that the incredibly powerful computing system, is becoming a universal medium, the quickest ways for people to get access to information and get connected to one another in different parts of the world. With the internet, almost everything is available for everyone (2008). We can easily find solutions to problems online and take advantage of the information that the internet provides rather than using our brain to think. In fact, this intellectual technology like computer and smartphone is the solutions in our daily life, it’s intended to become our GPS, “our clock,” “our printing press” and “our typewriter”, “our calculator” and “our phone connector”, and “our radio and TV” (2008). Carr illustrates that these intellectual technologies has become the purpose in our life, people are being able to distribute the solutions that the internet provided with just a few Google searches, and some links will pop out. Carr also writes that our form of ability to read and to think critically in the reading has constantly taken us off the topics due to