Technology and Attention Spans
The use of technology has been precipitately increasing in recent years. The digital world has a way of including itself in relatively every aspect of life nowadays. The proficiency technology provides in the modern world has created many conveniences in everyday life. "The Digital Revolution started booming in the later 20th century and has been flourishing ever since" (Schoenherr). However, as technology has developed, users seem to be more reliant on it than ever. With more use, researchers fear that technology is affecting attention spans. This controversy has been wildly spreading throughout the world for some time now. Technology has not negatively impacted attention spans because scientific research done on the subject cannot be …show more content…
Some believe that technology is causing the brain to rewire, which causes them to not retain information as easily and be abstracted from specific interactions with people and other knowledge. On the other hand, even if technology is rewiring the brain, the people of the future do not suffer from unusual intellectual deficiencies because they multitask quicker and more efficiently and sort quickly through many different tasks. Also, they are more able to find answers to particular questions, partly because they can search adequately and access certain information by way of the internet. Most people asked about their opinion on the impact of technology on children said that it would generally help in the future. Danan Boyd from Microsoft research says "The techniques and mechanisms to engage in a rapid-fire attention shifting will be extremely useful for the creative class whose job it is to integrate ideas; they relish opportunities to have stimuli that allows them to see things differently” (Graber). In the future technology will be used to its advantage to help thrive in the digital
The use of technology has been precipitately increasing in recent years. The digital world has a way of including itself in relatively every aspect of life nowadays. The proficiency technology provides in the modern world has created many conveniences in everyday life. "The Digital Revolution started booming in the later 20th century and has been flourishing ever since" (Schoenherr). However, as technology has developed, users seem to be more reliant on it than ever. With more use, researchers fear that technology is affecting attention spans. This controversy has been wildly spreading throughout the world for some time now. Technology has not negatively impacted attention spans because scientific research done on the subject cannot be …show more content…
Some believe that technology is causing the brain to rewire, which causes them to not retain information as easily and be abstracted from specific interactions with people and other knowledge. On the other hand, even if technology is rewiring the brain, the people of the future do not suffer from unusual intellectual deficiencies because they multitask quicker and more efficiently and sort quickly through many different tasks. Also, they are more able to find answers to particular questions, partly because they can search adequately and access certain information by way of the internet. Most people asked about their opinion on the impact of technology on children said that it would generally help in the future. Danan Boyd from Microsoft research says "The techniques and mechanisms to engage in a rapid-fire attention shifting will be extremely useful for the creative class whose job it is to integrate ideas; they relish opportunities to have stimuli that allows them to see things differently” (Graber). In the future technology will be used to its advantage to help thrive in the digital