Technology has gotten an increasingly bad reputation as it slowly becomes more integrated into our lives. Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is no exception to the many voices that argue the invention of technology has harmed our lives in far more ways than it has improved it. While many insist that taking breaks from technology is necessary and that spending so much time behind a screen is detrimental, in reality, technology has helped us advance as a society in many fields and can help people of all ages in their daily lives in so many ways that the issues Carr presents with technology seem incredibly insignificant.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long insisted that very young children should be kept away from …show more content…
As a teenager myself, I find it extremely helpful to have access to a smartphone in college so I have the ability to contact people from all over the world. Without the development of cell phones, I would certainly not be able to remain as close with my friends from home as I have been able to. Snapchat, Instagram, iMessage, and many other social media apps help me keep up with the lives of those I care about who are not right here on campus with me. I have also been lucky enough to keep in contact with my former au pair despite the fact that she lives in an entirely different country. I have not seen her in two years, but thanks to iMessage and other social media, I keep in practically daily contact with …show more content…
While I do not disagree that the internet may have made it more difficult to pay attention to the multitude of paragraphs, I find his conclusion that the internet has completely rewired our brains a bit out there. Carr admits “...we still await the long-term neurological and psychological experiments that will provide a definitive picture of how Internet use affects cognition”, thus I find it impossible to take Carr’s insistence that the Internet causing people to take up “power browsing” more often to be a sign of anything bigger (Carr). Carr’s skepticism about the at the thought of the internet supplementing our intelligence seems unjustified, as people have been supplementing their knowledge with that of other humans, books, and many other sources of information outside of the internet for generations. The fear that Carr expresses of becoming technology reliant is rather obsolete, as the world is simply shifting from print books to the same information in PDFs online. If Carr sees no issue with reading books to gain intelligence or information, there is no reason for him to fear technology when it is improving ways to do this and many other aspects of
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long insisted that very young children should be kept away from …show more content…
As a teenager myself, I find it extremely helpful to have access to a smartphone in college so I have the ability to contact people from all over the world. Without the development of cell phones, I would certainly not be able to remain as close with my friends from home as I have been able to. Snapchat, Instagram, iMessage, and many other social media apps help me keep up with the lives of those I care about who are not right here on campus with me. I have also been lucky enough to keep in contact with my former au pair despite the fact that she lives in an entirely different country. I have not seen her in two years, but thanks to iMessage and other social media, I keep in practically daily contact with …show more content…
While I do not disagree that the internet may have made it more difficult to pay attention to the multitude of paragraphs, I find his conclusion that the internet has completely rewired our brains a bit out there. Carr admits “...we still await the long-term neurological and psychological experiments that will provide a definitive picture of how Internet use affects cognition”, thus I find it impossible to take Carr’s insistence that the Internet causing people to take up “power browsing” more often to be a sign of anything bigger (Carr). Carr’s skepticism about the at the thought of the internet supplementing our intelligence seems unjustified, as people have been supplementing their knowledge with that of other humans, books, and many other sources of information outside of the internet for generations. The fear that Carr expresses of becoming technology reliant is rather obsolete, as the world is simply shifting from print books to the same information in PDFs online. If Carr sees no issue with reading books to gain intelligence or information, there is no reason for him to fear technology when it is improving ways to do this and many other aspects of