Technology In Sven Birkerts'sThe Owl Has Flown?

Technology has advanced a lot more in the past century than it has over a million years. There is millions of new advancements found every day, however, this is making the younger generation a lot less knowledgeable. In the book The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerkein, it states that the teens today are the dumbest generation to live on the planet. It is commonly believed that the young generation is the least knowledgeable generation because of their great reliability on technology, constant distraction by technology, and negative media influences. Although technology helps to make one’s everyday life a lot easier, it is taking away one’s intelligence.

Every so often there is an improvement in technology. 1“History also shows that we generally improve and refine tools to make them better.” As technology progresses the human mind has to improve, in order to continually

The current generation in particular, cares “less about knowing information than knowing where to find information,” [Source B] and according to Bauerlein, today’s youth have “much more access and education” than their predecessors [Source A]. This is another example of humans taking their own advances for their personal advantage. The new tools and devices that come along with the technological advances have such a great assistance to every generation willing to use them. In fact, a study from the U.S. governments Foreign Service Journal in 1962 states the candidates had an ignorance to “elementary a subject as geography” and that few of them could “even place accurately the principal rivers” or even discuss other subjects that could be argued to simply be common knowledge [Source E]. This is proof; America is growing and changing in positive lights, not negative, and using recourses that have been made for the purpose of helping our generations. Although newer generations don’t generally learn knowledge in the same way as their elders, they have ways to do so with an improved efficiency and

There is no denying the incredible library of knowledge the internet has made readily available for all to use. Having such a resource is transforming modern society in many ways, as it brings insight and news across the world at a moment’s notice, all the while enhancing educational and technological advancements. However, according to Sven Birkets, an American essayist and literacy critic, in his essay, “The Owl Has Flown”, it is not without fault as observations are to be made on how this new resource has transformed people’s intelligence and wisdom. The author theorizes that the large, almost unlimited, library that is now being offered by services such as the internet, reshapes the public’s knowledge. Knowledge is transformed to be horizontal or insubstantial compared to the much deeper lateral understanding pertaining to older generations because of the amount of time they spent dwelling on a much smaller set of resources. This observation made by Birkets in the late 90’s is expanded upon, and modernized by Nicholas Carr, an American writer and author, in a more inflicting and self-reflecting article for The Atlantic magazine entitled “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains”. Carr does not just blame the Google search engine in this claim, but the internet as a whole on how it impacts concentration and our ability to contemplate. These cognitive impacts are observed and explained in more scientific terms by Eric Jaffe, a regular Observer

Every Time new technology comes out everyone is elation about it because it's something new we react more different than our grandparents would react we have more knowledge and experience with technology if you think about it i know some of my grandparents ask me how to use something because they don't know and aren't used to the technology we grew up with and they didn't. Their generation is way different than ours in so many different ways we have improved so much new technology how the world started with technology and where we're at now says it all. If we think about it where will technology be in 10, 20 years we improve so much just in a year 20 years from now a lot of new learning ways also if you think about it we've had so many new iphones come out these past 2 years how many more do you think they will make? The more you think about it the more questions to be asked where will technology take us through time and where will we end

Carr says that current technology has taken the place of free thought. With all of that information at the reader’s fingertips, the reader would take the easy way out and just look it up online. For one, that’s considered passive learning. Passive learners take the easy way out, because there is no consequences or feedback from whoever they take their information from. Secondly, the odds of the reader retaining the details they learned is slim to none. If the reader needs information, they should use books, documents, and primary sources for that information. Instead,

Intelligence is not based on what one already knows. Instead, it is based upon our ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills towards a certain topic. In other words, how one will process and use the information that has been given to them. The learning and thinking capacity today’s generation posses is not only greater than those of previous generations but more effective as well. Researcher Mizuko Ito agrees. In her 3-year study she states, “...young people acquire various forms of technical and media literacy by

In Nicholas Carr’s article entitled, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” he explains that the up rise of computers, and technology, has taken a toll on the former ability to read and understand what is being read. Suddenly, what was once so simple is now a prolonged, agonizing task which readers like Carr have experienced. The infamous internet has become the basis for information people seek to collect. Personally, I think Carr’s interpretation of the increase in technology is most accurate when referring to the overtake of artificial intelligence, the inability to read small to large amounts of written work, and the obvious change in the way we think as a person.

Many students today live in a world where technology has taken over, this current generation has much more complex technology than previous generations. This generation is not in fact the dumbest but is simply finding a new processes and styles to further our learning and comprehension. Newer technology is causing us to favor different processes that our brain uses when needing to find new information or receiving new information. When reading Sharon Begley’s “The Dumbest Generation?

One of the points the author focuses on is how technology poses a threat to our minds. In the article, Carr explains how his brain “now expects to have information the way the net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles” (4). This shows that our brains have been wired to obtain knowledge at a fast, almost instant pace, deterring users from reading books or even multiple paragraphs. This phenomenon was put to the test by a study from University College London, where data

The main idea that Carr tries to support throughout his article is that of alteration. Carr takes a stand for the idea that technology, specifically the internet, is the cause of the recent change in the way people think. Throughout Carr’s article, it is clear that the change being referenced is the way people think, read, and ultimately understand what they read in books, magazines, internet, and media. In the article, the author uses his own experiences and detailed accounts of how others feel about the way their minds work since the

We no longer are capable to text or email without having to use slang and reducing our words to three letters or less. Society has become so dependent on constantly checking celebrity posts, Instagram posts, Facebook updates, etc. that we no longer have time for hobbies. Technology is stealing from our interaction and socializing skills. Carr states, “But what we too often forget is that information is not knowledge, it's not intelligence, and it's certainly not wisdom. And when we spend all of our time gathering information, what gets crowded out is the time to distance yourself from distractions and interruptions and think deeply about things, think deeply about the experiences you're having, think deeply about the new facts you're learning, think deeply about the conversation you're having” (Smart Technology Is Making Us Dumb). The first humans compared to twenty first century humans were smarter because they were resourceful towards their main goal of survival. The reason society has become dumber is because we rely on technology to think and do everything for

Through technology, people can connect with others and know what is going on in their lives, even if they live on the other side of the Earth. Technology makes easier for people to know what is going on around the world and makes people worry about the things they should not be. People can find all the information that the world has to offer online and people do not know what to do with it. So on the internet people just skim through whatever they were looking or reading. In article “Smart technology is making us Dumber” Carlson, Dan argues “that we are losing the ability to read deeply and, by implication, to think deeply” That is true because I personally do not completely read the articles on the internet and even if sometimes I do read the articles completely, I forget what the first part of the article was about. This happens to a lot of younger and my age group people because we are not focused instead we are thinking about irrelevant things like what we are going do after or what game are we going to play. Eventually, we are going to lose the ability to understand the real meaning behind

Technology grows broader and more advanced every day, unbelievably. Now more than six billion eight hundred and eighty million people own cell phones and devices like it. I will have you ask yourself first, when is the last time you read a novel on paperback instead of from a kindle or looked up a word on Google, maybe even had a full conversation with anyone regarding anything? Technology will make knowing anything about a subject obsolete as made evident in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, multiple online sources and an interview with Mrs. Rucker a teacher for many years.

Sharon Begley uses intense language to convey the true irony that as the over thirty generation argues Gen Y is “ignorant to facts”, they are ignorant to the facts and studies showing spikes in IQ and cognitive intelligence. As knowledge becomes increasingly more accessible and at our fingertips each day, why memorize them, when instead things privy to your needs can be remembered? Gen Y are not only thinkers, but doers, gaining them major points in experience and comprehension. “By its immediacy and breadth of information, the digital world lowers barriers to self-directed learning”(Source C). Knowledge is limitless, and Mizuko Ito paints a vivid picture of the wall all other generations have built between them and the sweet enlightenment of what they have yet to learn. Gen Y has broken down this wall and opened new doors for themselves and all others around them. As a new generation is born, a new page is turned into a complete new way of thinking, but it is often forget that this doesn't have to be a bad thing. “‘I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since