Life in the Screen Technologies are evolving machines discovered by us humans. Technologies, especially now have created a big impact to how people live their everyday life because it provides everyone with another world with new perspective; which sometimes we forget to notice what we do have in our surroundings. In an article entitled, “The Multitasking Generation” written by Claudia Wallis, she talked about people being imprisoned by their devices that it hinders them from doing their task to the best of their ability. In this article, the author expresses a message that we cannot effectively multitask and how technology have become one of the main reason as to why some of us are forgetting to live our lives. Claudia Wallis does this by providing examples of how people interact with each other and how it effects our brain.
In the beginning of the article, Claudia Wallis present the Cox’s family. She mentioned how their family interacts with each other, “Stephen and Georgina Cox know exactly where their children are. Well, their bodies, at least.” (Wallis, 402). This shows that the children’s main attention is not fixated on their family, but on something else. As mentioned in the article, the …show more content…
She’s started doing all the task at the same time, but what she is doing was switching task to another. It is like writing a sentence for your essay and stopping to watch part of a movie. Also, Claudia mentioned the effect of multitasking “When people try to perform two or more related task either at the same time or alternating rapidly between them, errors go way up, and it takes longer.” (Claudia, 404). Multitasking slows us down because we suffer from decrease in efficiency. It is hard for our brain to process information if we are doing paper works and watching our favorite show because our brain is not processing the information simultaneously, but it rapidly moves its attention to the
In the beginning of the article, Claudia Wallis present the Cox’s family. She mentioned how their family interacts with each other, “Stephen and Georgina Cox know exactly where their children are. Well, their bodies, at least.” (Wallis, 402). This shows that the children’s main attention is not fixated on their family, but on something else. As mentioned in the article, the …show more content…
She’s started doing all the task at the same time, but what she is doing was switching task to another. It is like writing a sentence for your essay and stopping to watch part of a movie. Also, Claudia mentioned the effect of multitasking “When people try to perform two or more related task either at the same time or alternating rapidly between them, errors go way up, and it takes longer.” (Claudia, 404). Multitasking slows us down because we suffer from decrease in efficiency. It is hard for our brain to process information if we are doing paper works and watching our favorite show because our brain is not processing the information simultaneously, but it rapidly moves its attention to the