Technology Has The Biggest Potential Downside

Technology has always been a controversial subject between conservative people and innovators. Some people believe that it is a great tool to connect cultures and improve education and innovation in our society today, but others view it as a menace in our lives. “Growing Up Tethered” by Sherry Turkle and “George Orwell...Meet Mark Zuckerberg” by Lori Andrews both view technology as a dangerous tool. They believe in the many drawbacks of technology and the harm it can do to our lives with no explanation of the positive effects it has had on our society. “Our Future Selves” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen plays the role of a positive look at technology and its role in our lives today. It gives examples of how advancing technology helps us and improves so many peoples’s lives. We can use Schmidt and Cohen’s essay as a lens to view the other two texts and gain a different understanding of what they are writing about.

The effects of technology usage have long been a topic of debate, with the negative consequences often being brought up. Authors such as Robert Samuels, Alison Gopnik, Nicholas Carr, Gary Small and Vorgan Gigi have all addressed this topic in their own articles. In Samuels’ “Breaking Down Borders: How Technology Transforms the Private and Public Realms,” he discusses the creation of private bubbles in public spaces due to technology, and the consequent alienation of others. “Diagnosing the Digital Revolution” by Gopnik argues that the habits that tech users have today have always existed, while Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” states that technology is actively changing the way humans think. “Meet Your iBrain” by Gigi and Small covers how technology affects brains and alters them. This paper will use the articles and an interview with a peer to analyze the perceived negative effects of using technology, particularly worse memory, shorter attention span, exacerbation of bad habits, and shifting emotions.

This idea that the physical action of such seemingly meaningless tasks makes me want to leave my phone aside for the few hours I spend at school, learning and enriching my mind. These articles have clarified for me that the negative outcomes of technology in learning prevent my mind from absorbing knowledge. My academic work, whether it be in high school or college, will constantly deteriote if I let technology overpower my ability to think and learn. It is not even the fact that the use of technology will probably lower my grades, but the possibility of not growing or learning makes me realize that the consequences of technology use in the classrom are some that I will avoid and prevent by allowing myself to use my senses and knowledge to gain new ideas and experiences. Such implicaitons are ones that I wish to not face and will do so by simply setting my phone aside to learn, and by letting go of the temptation that technology can be, in such a modern, tech-savy

While there are frequent situations throughout my school day that require me to be on technology, I have decided to take conscious steps to reduce my technology use. I will always take notes by hand instead of online, and I make sure to have my technology off during class lectures. Through disengagement from the online world, I have found that my understanding of material goes up, and that I absorb more information. If we can learn to monotask again, our centers of learning shall become more engaging for the student and ultimately more

Thousands of websites are distracting students from studying time. In an experiment at Cornell University, students who used internet-connected laptops during a lecture did much worse on a subsequent test than students who did not use the internet (Carr, 2010). It indicated that using the internet in class impacts students’ attention span (2010). Distractions can take attention away from learning. In fact, using the internet does not promote study efficiency, but wastes time.

Although technology can bring people together and has educational tools it can tear us away from what's real in life. Technology has become such a big part of our lives that people can now just look at a watch and check their emails or watch a video. People are being consumed by their own technology devices technological to the point that instead of spending actually face to face time with their family they are in their room and in their bed just watching youtube. There are many problems with the way technology negatively affects people. To name a few, people are constantly distracted, there are many individuals that are in social isolation because they are always on their device. Also, an individual can suffer from technology addiction which leads to having a warped sense of reality.

One of the roles of technology has been to simplify our lives, our daily tasks and perhaps to make our lives easier and it has allowed us with more leisure time on the one hand this has all been beneficial for the human species but in the other hand perhaps we are losing ourselves as what it comes to asking ourselves if we have gotten enough and if it’s worth it to keep trying to achieve more and more technology advances that have already been proven to not only harm the earth’s environment but also our own health and it has changed perhaps the way we behave.

Technology is the science or knowledge put into use to solve problems as well as invent useful tools. It is a necessity used in everyday lives because of its advancement, especially in today’s world, from curing illnesses to being able to talk to someone across the country with one single electronic device. Although technology may look as if it’s beneficial to our society, it will ruin the future of the human race. We live in a place with hate all around that can be the cause to an atrocious downfall. Countries use this power to overthrow each other with the use of weapons such as nuclear bombs that can easily wipe out a city with one single button. Similarly, the novel Level 7, by Mordecai Roshwald, gives a great realistic outlook of what would happen if the government were to use a nuclear bomb to wipe out their enemies. Other novels such as The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells indicate the negative viewpoint, not only with death but what the future of technology will hold for the human race. Technology will eventually become so powerful that humans will no longer be able to control it causing their immense downfall.

Technology has been statistically proven to hinder knowledge, even though students are using it to gain knowledge in itself. The majority of technology use, according to a survey by Jackson (2013), 39.1% of 102 students in question admitted using their mobile phone during class for personal use and only 3.1% reported to use their device for academic purpose. According to an article in Government Technology, students who use their phones more than 10 hours day had a significantly lower grade-point average – 2.84 – in comparison to the GPA of those students who only used their phones up to two hours daily – 3.15. This shows that multitasking has a negative impact on learning. In support of this,

Nowadays, technology takes over the world as penetrate through human life. The biggest effects would be teenagers as they use technology more often. The technology impacts the family environment, social relationships with people; health of people that do not have rational use of technology, creativity, and focus.

The new technology used in modern society is advancing and helping us in positive ways. This technology is advancing everyone and our kids will be smarter than ever. Scientists are coming out with new technology and everyone is using it. Schools are using more computers than ever, social media is bigger than ever and there are even new cars. Schools using computers more is helping kid’s grades, social media is bringing us closer and more people driving electric cars is helping save the earth.

Almost everywhere people look they are able to see some form of technology. Only “ 13% of U.S. adults do not use the internet,” according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data (Anderson & Perrin, 2016). With so many people using this is not surprising that technology is beginning to affect different age groups. Technology overuse causes developmental setbacks in children, self image issues in teens, and health concerns within adults.

Humans have dominated the Earth for thousands of years, we created a vibrant and wonderful world. However, as we continue developing ourselves, we also created something that slowly takes over humans’ world, technology. Technology is what human’s endeavor to make our lives convenient. Along with the development of human beings, technology is one of the shiniest stars in the human history. The impacts that technology brings to humans are controversial. Some people believe that technology provides a higher living standard. However, in my opinion, technology has a negative effect on human behavior because it keeps human away from the “real” social life, it makes humans think slow, and it leads to addiction.

Technology moves the world; it advances society. It lessens the workload of people and companies, and shapes the world into a more technologically dependent one. Is society becoming overly reliant upon the innovation that it has created? Humankind should be benefitted wholeheartedly through it, but what of those who are negatively affected by the tidal wave of technological advancement? Such innovation should not be swamped by government regulations, nor should the creativity bolstered through said innovation; if anything, more work and attention should be pressed towards the technological industry to a certain extent, to improve upon improvisations and work out the kinks and negative effects it may have.

It’s clearly evident that technology has played a vital role in society for countless years. In the research journal, “ Internet Use and Academic Success in University students”, the authors Torres- Diaz et al, firmly believed that as a result of the internet, students were exposed to a rich data source and that led to the creation of a better atmosphere in which learning and the ideas increased. Torres et al supported their numerous claims with studies like (Leung & Lee,2012), whereby the researchers indicated that “ Studies show that students who search out information online get better marks because they have access to more data sources and are thus better informed on the subject”( pg. 63). A survey conducted in 2015 by McGraw- Hill Education, it was reported that 81% of students use mobile devices to study, 77% of students argued that adaptive technology has helped them improve grades, 62% of students said that technology helped them feel better prepared for classes