The under-30 generation has become the dumbest of all generations. These people should want to discover new things but they aren't wanting to. “The mind should profit alongside the youthful ego, the thirst for knowledge satisfied as much as the craving for …show more content…
The author uses personification when saying “thirst for knowledge” to support the claim about how in the past thirty years there hasn’t been a desire to learn anymore because technology hands people everything they need to know. Their non-driven attitude has caused them to not learn as much as the other generations. The new technology is also disrupting the way that these people are learning. “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory” (165). The author uses personification again when saying “tinkering with my brain” to support the claim about how in the past thirty years technology has caused people’s minds to not function as well as people’s from the older generations has. Another harmful thing about this generation is that the technology has caused their writing to not