Digital Memory Reflection

What if our life becomes fully dependent on the electronic devices in the future? “In Into the Electronic Millennium”, Birkerts discusses his concerns with the oncoming electronic world. Birkerts provides lots of cons about the electronic devices that can affect people's lives. The author’s intention for writing this essay is to make the audience aware of the significant changes that have started to occur as electronic technologies have developed. He uses various rhetorical devices to convey his arguments to the readers. Through this essay, he is trying to inform the academic community that the culture of printed words has ended in the society, while electronic technologies are starting to dominate. Birkerts uses anecdotes, juxtaposition,

The classical Greek philosopher once said that the new technology of writing “will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls because they will not use their memories,” from “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr. The species known as the homo-sapien now have the power to learn about anything, talk to people from different countries, and at the blink of the eye, get a response through the power of the internet. If the students here at Montesano High School take part in “Washington Screen Free Week,” the learning experience will be going backwards in time in the wrong direction.

The internet has revolutionized the world. The internet users can easily access from any data from around the world. However, the internet was also made the users less critical thinkers since the data obtain can be easily found online instead of reading it from a print book. Two sources in particular, Nicholas Carr, “Shallows” and Michael’s Aggers, interview with Clive Thompson “Smarter than you think” have recently argued how the internet has changed our memory and ways of thinking. The internet is bad for your brain because it limits your knowledge of memorization and XXXXXXX .In the book Shallows by Carr, he states. “The arrival of the limitless and easily searchable data banks of the Internet brought a further shift, not just in the way

Carr attempts to get all of us who read this to really think about this by stating “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” (2). He goes on to say that he doesn’t feel like that his brain is working as well as it used to, and attributes it to constant use of the internet. Understandably, most people use the internet more in this day and age, and it can very easily be assumed that this technology is hurting us in some way. Even Clive Thompson said “We're running out of memory. I don't mean computer memory... No, I'm talking about human memory, stored by the gray matter inside our heads. According to recent research, we're remembering

Carr is brutally honest with the phrase, “I’m not thinking the way I used to think,” and this truthfulness helps to build Carr ’s ethos and directly address the fact that the internet has changed his actions and his thoughts. He frames his essay with these anecdotes to leave the audience with the image of a personal struggle with technology. At the end of his essay Carr writes, “You should be skeptical of my skepticism. Perhaps those who dismiss critics of the Internet as Luddites or nostalgists will be proved correct...

In Joshua Foer’s essay, “The End of Remembering” (found in Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, published 2011) he explores the history and current state of remembering and how technology affects it.

There is a strange feeling, tinkering with my brain almost reprogramming my memory. Nicholas Carr explains it better in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”. Nicholas feels as if his mind isn't going, but changing. The traditional process of thought is being supplied and reshaped by the Internet. The Internet has created a rich store of information, but at what cost? With the Internet obtaining the ability to consume almost all other intellectual technologies, we must learn more to appreciate life before machines.

In the article “Does Tech Make Us Stupid? the author Genevieve Roberts presents different views of the effect of technology on our memory. Roberts obtains these views through the results of various studies performed in universities and by quoting a collection of books she has read. Roberts states that the use of technology has caused our memory to deteriorate therfore promoting a dependency on technology to retrieve information.

James Comey, an American lawyer, one said, “Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.” I share the same opinion with James Comey on this matter because it’s not that hard to see.

Have you ever sat down and tried to read your textbook for your history class and five minutes later you realize you have no idea what you just read or you don’t remember a single word? I know I have and I have to go back an re-read it maybe once or twice. Nicholas Carr brought up a point that many of us have never really stopped to think about. In his piece, he claims that google has affected how we think and learn. He uses a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey to begin to get his point across. In this scene it talks about how the supercomputer felt like it’s brain was being taken as it’s memory circuits were being stripped.

Nicholas Carr published The Shallows in 2010 about the idea of technology being involved in our lives today and the effect it is having on the world. As a famous Greek Scholar named Socrates once said that as people become customary towards writing their everyday thoughts down, they become much less reliable on the use of their own memory (Carr). What used to be accumulated in the head, is now today in the twenty first century stored down on smartphones diminishing humans capability of committing the use of their own memory. The memory can be divided into two different sections, primary memory and secondary memory. The primary memory is used to store random events that occur throughout your day and life, while the secondary memory is used to

The doctor of nursing practice (DNP) professional, regarding care of the general population, must consider many situations that may alter the delivery of effective medical treatments. In the beginning of this class we reviewed many of those situations with greater focus on the vulnerability populations. Preventive care remains by far the best interventions for this group. The prepared DNP professional must be ready to assess and address effectively epidemiology and health as well as facilitating evidence-based further development of healthier people priority tasks.

The introduction delivered by the speaker of the presentation was quite effective. She was able to grab the attention of the audience right away by beginning with a quote from Anne Frank. By starting her speech with a direct quote, this was able to capture the audience’s attention from the start, which is an important tool to use when delivering oral presentations to avoid the audience getting bored.

“Societies have always been shaped by media for communication, it is impossible to understand social and cultural change without knowledge of the workings of media even the alphabet is a technology that is absorbed by young children to learn to speak through communication. The digital age is changing the way we use our brains. Rather than store important facts, today we are more likely to store information about how to find those facts where a particular file is located on the computer, how to find an important webpage again.

Growing up as a millennial technology has continued to evolve. It has become an issue though, because many individuals are constantly abusing and overusing it. It is hard not to use technology because it’s used for just about everything including work, school, and for our own personal use. It has become a very reliable source of communication, however, it is way too over used. This type of communication can cause us to distance ourselves from the outside world and cause physical and psychological harm to our bodies. “ “Digital Dementia”, is a term coined by top German neuroscientist Manfred Spitzer in his 2012 book of the same name, it is used to describe how the overuse of digital technology is resulting in the breakdown of cognitive abilities in a way that is more commonly seen in people who have suffered a head injury or psychiatric illness” (Gwinn). If people continue to rely on technology without