The Pros And Cons Of Intellectual Technology

The use of internet with its avalanche of interactive and addictive stimuli, causes us to be better adapted to process such stimuli, tracking several thinks at once and multitasking. The net is a environment of interruptions, and to constantly use it, we are training ourselves to be very good at being interrupted. While it is possible to practice focused thinking while surfing the internet, is not the kind of thinking that it encourages. Slowly but for sure we started to have more and more difficulties to stay focused, concentrate on one task only. Our attention becomes broken and our thoughts, fragmented. Absorbing information from a superficial way is as important as the concentrated reading. The disturbing part, according to Carr, is having the knowledge that quickly reading is …show more content…
Intellectual technologies brings a number of advantages practices for its users. However, these advantages are just the tip of the iceberg, having a more profound effect. Is we look at the history of humanity, we can defend the view that such technologies have shaped and keeps shaping the human thought. These tools, in any way, change the way we think. An example of intellectual technology is the map. Today, we barely think on the map as a technology since it is so encrusted and essential in our lives. However, before its invention in pre-history, we perceived purely according to our sensory perception, that was the limit of our thinking about space. With advances of the map, we represent the physical space in the abstract. This brought a number of practical benefits, we could move on with relative confidence to places we’ve never visited before, we could demarcate borders and set properties. The use of the map also brought a sub deeper product, the man who once understood its surroundings only from his senses, began yo develop a more abstract