Holding Onto Reality

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,

As Carr continues, he speaks of his extended use of the internet over the last decade, explaining that all information that he once painstakingly searched for is done in minutes with the use of search engines. In doing this, Carr places blame on the internet for breaking his ability to concentrate. Carr presents his arguments in a way that his readers could easily agree. He gradually works up to the idea that the internet has weakened his ability to focus, and as he does this he makes several general statements about the internet’s nature. These points on the net’s nature are so basic that any reader of his article would be inclined to agree with them, and this lends itself to help readers believe the argument Carr wishes to propose. Because it would be hard to provide factual evidence to support his claims, Carr effectively uses logical reasoning to convince the reader.

Each and everyday around the world there are new advances in technology attempting to make life more simple. In the article by Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Carr explains his beliefs on how the internet is causing mental issues in today's society. Carr starts with his own opinion, he says the Internet is causing him to lose focus quickly. He cannot stay hooked to a book. He writes about his life being surrounded by the internet and how it has created problems, like not being able to stay focused on a reading; but it is interesting how he says the Internet has been a ‘godsend’ in his chosen profession. Carr uses a great deal of rhetorical appeals to try to connect with the audience. He compares the past and the present and how it has altered the

Since the rise of technology and smart devices, the public has seen controversy over the benefits and drawbacks of internet usage. Nicholas Carr shared his opinions in the article “From The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.” In the text, he claims that it seems to be “chipping away” his “capacity for concentration and contemplation” (Carr 5). In addition to that, he does not hesitate to state how “some worry they’re becoming chronic scatterbrains” from using the web (Carr 6). His views are painted purple in this piece of writing, as any reader could infer that Carr possesses a slightly bitter tone when it comes to the interwebs. He displays his dislike for the way it is reshaping our brains and mental function, even going

Attention to Nicholas Carr and his argument about technology it’s destroying our brains and affecting the world, the new generation and everyone. In recent discussions of the shallows, a controversial issue has been whether the internet is truly affecting us or not. On the other hand, however, others argue that the internet is making them more creative and some say it’s making them smarter. The best point in view on this issue, is reflected by Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows when he writes, “ The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation.” ( Carr,211). This insightful perspective demonstrates the truth of the matter; the price we pay to spend our day on the internet or using any other technology is alienation. That means

Today’s society has an affinity for even fledgling technological advances. If you take a look around, almost everyone has the new iPhone or Galaxy cell phone. Each new, updated device supplants the last. The incessant use of internet is brought on by the fact that it changes how we complete almost every task.

The Internet is the culmination of technological development. Thankful to it, humans have become multilaterally developed, the time has become a measure that has truly gained value, and science is more practical and accessible around the world. In his work:” The Shallows-What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains”, the publisher and author Nicolas Carr explains on his experience how the Internet besides its benefits has an enormous defect-distraction, lack of concentration on the meaning of things, or an event. In his speech, he mentions a habit that we practice daily and we do not realize his negative impact, namely the lack of concentration caused by “over welling urge to get up and check email, start clicking on links, do some googling” even

Some ten to fifteen years ago, people were already experiencing the feeling that the internet may be influencing us in an unhealthy manner. As we have continued on with our progression of technology, it seems that we have become more and more dependent on our newly developed electronics. This is exactly the argument made by Nicholas Carr in his article—which became the cover story of the Atlantic Monthly’s Ideas issue back in 2008—entitled “Is Google Making Us Stupid.” In this article, Carr explains what he has observed of our modern evolution of technology. His main point being that the internet has simply become too easily accessible. What may have taken days to research can now be accomplished in a couple hours at the most. This is dangerous as it develops

The central message of this article is to explain to its audience how the Internet is affecting its users over the past 20 years. This article and the book itself are based on three years research of studies conducted on this subject. Mainly this message is explaining how the access to the constant and unlimited stream of information on Internet is affecting people’s concentration and loss of focus in daily life.

It seem as technology advances we further and further lose our interests in books and written texts, this unhealthy addiction we have to technology may be affecting the way we think as well as lowering our reading, writing, and concentration skills. This is concerning as we seem to be getting closer and closer to the society that Ray Bradbury wrote about. In the society of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 it is described

This essay is informative because it shows how habits, and the mind, are changing because of the internet. People have become dependent on instant information; impatient when needing to research a topic; no longer need to remember information since it can be recalled on the computer; reliant on the

For years literature has been probed and prodded by students, teachers, scholars, and those just looking to pass the time. What all these readers can agree on is that any single work can be interpreted in a myriad of ways. Readers can derive interpretations on completely opposite sides of the spectrum, which can even go so far as to spark conflict or debate; thus, supporting Lemony Snicket’s argument that, the most “passionate and interesting pieces” of writing “divide” people in their opinions. Sometimes it is the writer’s intent to introduce a controversial issue to get people to question and argue, and other times the author merely presents a more relaxed or simplistic idea still knowing that readers can branch off of it in many different

The positive effects of accessible technology on modern society are that it cures curiosity, creates connections between people through the internet, and allows people to bond in the real world through what they see or learn from it. The internet is a quick way of getting questions answered and accessing information that someone may be interested in. The negative effect of having information available at all times is that instead of individual thinking, people can look up ideas, answers, opinions, also creating a distraction. Faber recognizes technology’s ability to distract and overtake people as he “took Montag quickly into the bedroom and lifted a picture frame aside, revealing a television screen the size of a postal card. “‘I always wanted something very small, something I could talk to, something I could blot out with the palm of my hand, if necessary, nothing that could shoot me down, nothing monstrous big.’”

For once I have to agree with Edmundson on the matter of truth seeking and interpretation. There are a lot of different interpretations on what truth means. Some people will interpret a pieces of literature one way while someone else will interpret it some why else. For example, when I was in high school there was only one interpretation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. I've always heard that Romeo and Juliet was a serious tragedy. When I got older; I learned that it more of a tragic comedy. Whether you subscribe to one idea or the other, I feel that as long as you are close to what the original idea was you’re fine. Like Edmundson stated, you can never get to the perfect path into the author's mind but you can find a path close

When discussing internet use, the proverbial double-edged sword is perhaps more evident, and frankly substantially more terrifying, than nearly anything in this information-driven society because it’s cutting edge goes relatively unnoticed, leaving a swath of carnage in its wake. In his piece for The Telegraph, Carr supports his concern that dependence on the internet and the wealth of instantly accessible information is leaving us “blind to the damage we may be doing to our intellectual lives and even our culture” (p.19).