The Internet and What Its Doing to Our Brains
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- Date Submitted: 12/11/2013 01:23 PM
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In The Shallows Nicolas Carr clearly states his opinions on technology and what it is doing to our brains. Carr was at first very fond of technology and couldn’t wait to see what it had in store for our future. As time went on, Carr realized the long term side effects; our ability to think deeply, stay focused for long periods of time and staying sustained in long term thought is diminishing right before our eyes. Are these side effects acceptable? If it means we can maintain data faster, find information in shorter periods of time and all around get tasks taken care of 10 times faster than ever before.
Many people can agree when I say, brains are quite remarkable. They can adapt to almost any circumstance. Whether it is in social skills, acceptable behavior skills, technology, you name it. The brain can almost do it all. Nicholas Carr really believes that technology has created a major effect on our brains. "Over the past few years," Carr wrote, "I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think.”(Carr 5) Carr believes that technology is hindering our ability to think deeply, or have any sort of long term thought. ADHD/ADD is found more prone in young children because they are growing up with all this “new” technology. Their brains grow and adjust to this technology causing a long term affect to children all around the world. Carr believes this is bad, he believes we are losing sight of our brains. Technology is changing our lives everywhere around us. Everything is made electric; electric toothbrushes, electrical cars, electrical books, you name it. Jacob Weisberg, once a skeptic about electrical books stated what the Kindle tells us, “that printed books, the most important artifact of human civilization, are going to join newspapers and...
Many people can agree when I say, brains are quite remarkable. They can adapt to almost any circumstance. Whether it is in social skills, acceptable behavior skills, technology, you name it. The brain can almost do it all. Nicholas Carr really believes that technology has created a major effect on our brains. "Over the past few years," Carr wrote, "I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think.”(Carr 5) Carr believes that technology is hindering our ability to think deeply, or have any sort of long term thought. ADHD/ADD is found more prone in young children because they are growing up with all this “new” technology. Their brains grow and adjust to this technology causing a long term affect to children all around the world. Carr believes this is bad, he believes we are losing sight of our brains. Technology is changing our lives everywhere around us. Everything is made electric; electric toothbrushes, electrical cars, electrical books, you name it. Jacob Weisberg, once a skeptic about electrical books stated what the Kindle tells us, “that printed books, the most important artifact of human civilization, are going to join newspapers and...