Overuse Of Technology

“The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation. The toll can be particularly high with our intellectual technologies. The tools of the mind amplify and in turn numb the most intimate, the most human, of our natural capacities - those for reason, perception, memory, emotion.” (Carr 211) The overuse of mind-altering technology is extremely capable of diminishing the natural capacities a human contains. People are no longer guided toward deep, personally understanding. Instead they are pushed more towards quickly skimming over articles without taking the information deeply into understanding. They are hurried off toward pieces of information and another, and so on. “The breadth of its influence and activity is often interpreted as evidence that is an entirely new species of business, one that transcends and redefines all traditional categories.” (56) …show more content…
People do not read passages word for word anymore, but instead causing them to be lazy and only skim over the entire work hoping something will catch their eyes. Not paying attention to find the actual information for themselves, the newer generation of children are getting to the point of not being able to read anything at all without looking at a computer or touch screen. “The publication of new material has been extended far beyond our ability to make use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.”