Jamais Cascio

The topic of controversy for this essay is whether or not technology has a negative or positive affect on people. In order to help explain whether or not technology has a positive or negative affect on us there will be four articles that will be discussed within this essay. The first article is “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, “The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens by Ferris Jabr, “Get Smarter” by Jamais Cascio, and “Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds” by Damon Darlin. Carr and Jabr’s articles say that technology does affect us negatively, while Cascio and Darlin say that technology affects us in a positive way. An interested, but uniformed person can learn most about this…

In his article “Get Smarter”, Jamais Cascio, an artist and futurist, talks about the significance of the Net in positively shaping our brain’s ability to accommodate to our future environment. The author appreciates the fact that the Internet gives us the ability to see enhancements in our medium and allows us to acquire the “fluid of intelligence the ability to find meaning in confusion and to solve new problems, independent of acquired knowledge”.(Cascio) In others word, our cognitive…

Jamais Cascio, in his article “Get Smarter,” begins by reflecting on how by in the past humans through adapting to situations that may be potential threats, have made us essentially smarter. We alter our brains to adapt to any abnormal situation that we may encounter. The technologies that we operate today are so detailed and up to date. They match exactly what we need and it is hard to imagine what could get better than this. However, we must acknowledge that this is how our ancestors have…

whether economic, ecological, or political - but it 's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us? – Jamais Cascio (BrainyQuote). One person has been trying to answer Cascio’s question about sustainability, however, before we go further, what is sustainability? According to Dictonary.com, sustainability is the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed. When talking about…

because they had all the answers they needed from the chip in their heads. In the article Is Google Making Us Stupid Carr states the use of texting now and how that can change the way we write other things and actually speak. This is something a lot of us now can relate to for example being out of school for the summer where you do not need to write papers or literally anything the only text you formulate are short poor written messages to your friends, getting back to school the next year…

The Resilient Thrive of a Native In all three compositions: the short story Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie, the painting Contemporary Sioux Indian by James Bama, and the poem Without Title by Diane Glancy all exemplify the resiliency in modern Native American culture. Ever since the British came to America the Native American culture has been distorted. Without obtaining resiliency as a Native…

resilience and tenacity to survive college. To succeed in college, she had to work with the school and teachers to get assistance on what to do and a guideline to get there. From this, she learned the true meaning of hard work and it ensured her on how to prepare her children on how to succeed in college if they wanted to succeed. (Doyle) For one to be a survivor, one must learn how to overpower their flaws and treasure their strengths. Individuals need to learn how to use their instincts and…

Handheld devices are a part of society, while some enjoy this convenience there are others who are concerned with this ever-increasing reliance on a device other than our minds. Many are ignoring the signs of the diminishing value of individual knowledge and embracing the idea of using machines to do what people have become too lazy to do themselves. As stated by Jamais Cascio “…while society’s collective memory is expanding at an astonishing rate, our internal, individual ones are shrinking.”…

“Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” –Jamais Cascio. Survival requires you to have aspiration even if something goes in the wrong direction and intelligence by creating useless items into useful items. In the excerpt Life of Pi by Yann Martel, it explains how Pi struggles to survive on a lifeboat with a large Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after a horrific…

The controversy of technology either having a positive or negative effect depends on the type of person. This controversy has existed from the early 1990’s, possibly earlier. (Pinker 1). The creation of various types of technology has brought on the fear of technology taking over and controlling people’s minds. No one really paid too much attention to the effect of technology until Carr wrote his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”. After having that article published, many other critics and…