The Shallows
This digital world of electronics is everywhere you go. It is everywhere you see. It does not revolve around us but we revolve around it, itself. The beeping, pressing of thumbs, the checking of phones, it is all around us. In recent discussions of the net, a controversial issue has been whether the net has a positive or negative impact on our brains. On one hand, some argue that the net has bettered our intelligence, making us smarter. One the other hand, however, others argue that the net is making us dumber, creating our brains to have short term memory and not long term. The best perspective on this issue, is reflected by Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows, “The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation. …show more content…
This insightful perspective demonstrates the truth of the matter; while there are pros and cons of the internet it has a greater negative effect through memory loss, emotion and …show more content…
That in creating it we created a better world. All the communication that you can do all over the whole world has changed the way we see things. Being on the other side of a country does not stop people from talking but they can do that through skype or any other social media. Saying in this is very terrible because there can be miscommunication and people can take it the wrong way. People do not communicate like they use to, seeing them stay into their phone like a zombie walking along the road. There is no emotion in most things anymore but you just think there is because you write that emoji. Technology has made everyone an emotionless thing. Being with friends is just taking a lot of pictures and saying that is it and going on their way. Dates have become staring at phones and no real talking involved. Those skills are being lost and are sometimes no longer there for some people. If there is not a change generations could be lost in words and only thumbing what they want to say and might get to be that
This digital world of electronics is everywhere you go. It is everywhere you see. It does not revolve around us but we revolve around it, itself. The beeping, pressing of thumbs, the checking of phones, it is all around us. In recent discussions of the net, a controversial issue has been whether the net has a positive or negative impact on our brains. On one hand, some argue that the net has bettered our intelligence, making us smarter. One the other hand, however, others argue that the net is making us dumber, creating our brains to have short term memory and not long term. The best perspective on this issue, is reflected by Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows, “The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation. …show more content…
This insightful perspective demonstrates the truth of the matter; while there are pros and cons of the internet it has a greater negative effect through memory loss, emotion and …show more content…
That in creating it we created a better world. All the communication that you can do all over the whole world has changed the way we see things. Being on the other side of a country does not stop people from talking but they can do that through skype or any other social media. Saying in this is very terrible because there can be miscommunication and people can take it the wrong way. People do not communicate like they use to, seeing them stay into their phone like a zombie walking along the road. There is no emotion in most things anymore but you just think there is because you write that emoji. Technology has made everyone an emotionless thing. Being with friends is just taking a lot of pictures and saying that is it and going on their way. Dates have become staring at phones and no real talking involved. Those skills are being lost and are sometimes no longer there for some people. If there is not a change generations could be lost in words and only thumbing what they want to say and might get to be that