As technology has advanced and propelled us to formally unknown heights, one has to question how it has altered over perception over time. Authors Nicholas Carr and Stephen Marche questions over usage, giving the assumption that it may have made us “Stupid or Lonely”. Reviewing the two articles together gives some indication that there is a concern with technology affecting us negatively; yet it also sheds light on the ability to gather readily available information when needed. The advancements in technology have given arise to the social media era and its poster child is Facebook. It is the norm to meet people virtually and is almost taboo to stay in contact via the traditional alternatives, such as: in person, phone calls, and letters.
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In past times her death would have only been viewable on the news and some newspapers, so her death wouldn’t have been noticeable to many based on her status as a celebrity and cause of death. It is due to these virtual interactions that many are able to experience this form of pseudo-contact. Aside from the artificial contact Facebook provides another question comes to mind, is the internet making use dumb through constant usage? Author Nicholas Carr wrote the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, which targets the issues of having so much information available to us that we aren’t required to have to remember everything, Carr (2008) “A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was …show more content…
in exchange for “knowledge” or just information to be easily accessible that we will sacrifice a cultural importance that we will surely miss once it is gone. Carr (2008) “I come from a tradition of Western Culture in which the ideal was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality”. Stephen Marche (2012) writes “… connection is not the same thing as a bond, and that instant and total connection is no salvation… Facebook denies us a pleasure whose profundity we had underestimated: the chance to forget about ourselves for a
In past times her death would have only been viewable on the news and some newspapers, so her death wouldn’t have been noticeable to many based on her status as a celebrity and cause of death. It is due to these virtual interactions that many are able to experience this form of pseudo-contact. Aside from the artificial contact Facebook provides another question comes to mind, is the internet making use dumb through constant usage? Author Nicholas Carr wrote the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, which targets the issues of having so much information available to us that we aren’t required to have to remember everything, Carr (2008) “A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was …show more content…
in exchange for “knowledge” or just information to be easily accessible that we will sacrifice a cultural importance that we will surely miss once it is gone. Carr (2008) “I come from a tradition of Western Culture in which the ideal was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality”. Stephen Marche (2012) writes “… connection is not the same thing as a bond, and that instant and total connection is no salvation… Facebook denies us a pleasure whose profundity we had underestimated: the chance to forget about ourselves for a