Technology : The Eudite Generation

The world we live in today depends on technology to run. We have phones that can practically do anything. That is where the older generations say we are lazy, it is not that we are lazy, instead we are intuitive and resourceful. These words are viewed differently by Generation Y as we are trying to simplify everything, allowing work to be done faster. For example, in “A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much” it states, “College students also spend fewer hours studying then their counterparts in 1961…” (Rampell 389). We no longer need to go to the library because we can access the wealth of information on the internet, which is always at our fingertips.

This is shown by the article “Attached to Technology and Paying a Price” by Matt Richtel when he said “in 2008, people consumed three times as much information each day then they did in 1960.” Before smart phones and laptops people had to look it up in a library if they had a question now people can get it quicker and easier with the power of technology. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Nicholas Carr states, “The internet contains the world’s best writing, images, and ideas; Google lets us find the relevant pieces instantly.” This shows that if people didn’t have Google, the students would have to look harder to find information that they have the ability to get right at their

It is a habit for the older generation to compare today’s society to their own, and often time, it is not in the favor of the youth. A prominent though is that the current generation is being corrupted by technology and because of it are at a disadvantage intellectual. One certain critic, Mark Bauerlein, in his book, The Dumbest Generation, makes a bold claim that anyone under thirty are part of a generation dumber than any before. However, studies show a different trend. Technology is not lowering intelligence but changing the way people learn. Because of the influence of the digital world, the current generation has shift to a new way of learning that in no way make them dumber.

He says that while Gen Z can take in a lot of information very quickly due to this technological upbringing they also lose interest extremely quickly. Also, they tend to be more private with this technology than millennials were, rather than posting everything online they are more likely to use more anonymous apps.

Carr gives Google credit where it is due, but he also accuses this plethora of easily accessible information of "chipping away [my] capacity for concentration and contemplation" (Carr 390). Being able to obtain any information at anytime does give people a reason to not store any knowledge or worry about remembering important things--if you forget something, you can just look it up again. It is easy to see how Carr considers this a negative effect of technology playing such a large role in

First, this struggle starts out with just a want of convenience. Many people want convenience so they turn to technology. More often than not, I find myself reaching for my phone for pretty much everything. Recently I was trying to figure out how to pronounce a word. Instead of finding a dictionary or just asking someone I got my phone out and googled it. I don’t go to the books much anymore. I just reach for what I have on hand, which is always my phone. Also, Carr states, “The advantages of having immediate access to such and incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded” (Carr 589). He gives his readers a sense of just how much information there is to be had and how it is there in a flash when we need it. There is really no waiting around for information anymore when it is there immediately. Another example of how we turn to convenience is the digital

First off, one way that this generation is smarter is through technology and writing. This group is now communicating to each other through text or various social media. Members of this group are continuously writing during their day and “so much [of this] socializing takes place online” (Source G). Through media outlets this is where they are getting an enormous amount of their literacy skills. Compared to previous generations where before

The Internet makes everything nearly effortless now. Schwartz writes, “Endless access to new information also easily overloads our working memory.” Now, instead of going to a Library to do research you can access the same information in just a fraction of the time. Another article tells a short story of a 15-year-old girl said that “when she went out to dinner with her father and he took out his phone to add ‘facts’ to their conversation” (Turkle). The lifestyle of being able to go out to dinner with your family and not checking handheld devices cease to

Being able to instantly gather information is easier than it has ever been before. People can go on the internet, press a few buttons and are given an endless amount of information. Do not anything about the topic, just Google it and it will provide the information that is needed. It has come to the point where people rely on the internet daily. However, there are downsides to having technology surrounding society most of the time. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” from the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic, Nicholas Carr, a writer and former member of Britannica’s Encyclopedia editorial board of advisors, expresses how technology is negatively changing how we think and act because of the influences people get from the technology

Nicholas Carr’s Is Google Making Us Stupid? is a great overview of the impact the internet is having on his, and others; life, brain, and habits. The old days of having to research a subject for hours to fully understand it is long gone. Having such a powerful tool available at any time can be a good and bad thing wrapped up in the same package. Home computer and smartphone ownership has been on a steady rise over the last couple decades, therefore, having information available at all times is hard to resist. Having answers instantly with a couple clicks on a keyboard can be valuable, but only to the extent that the information received is true. The impatience with having to spend time researching for the correct answer is ever growing to the point that any type of patience is a dying art. Retrieving information on a device is easier, but over time, can also disrupt the brains process of storing information long-term.

A teacher has assigned their class a research paper that is due next week. A student opens their computer and goes to Google and types in their topic to find links that will help them in their research. Instead of going to a library and cracking open a book, the internet is the go-to resource. Before the internet and search engines will Google, students and other individuals would have to read books for hours, maybe even days, to find the answers they are looking for. Now, that’s changed. With a touch of a button, everyone can type their question into Google, whether it be what 2+2 equals or how playing video games affects development. No matter what the question may be, the answer can be found with ease. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” author

Have you ever been in a debate between something? Well in the article “ Is this generation really more informed?” We read about how people think that this generation is more informed than the generations in the past because everyone has technology and phones. But not all people are correct. Everyone is not always informed about the right things. Some people are more worried about the things that interest them than about things that are important to the world.

When students have their technology with them, they have greater access to information about their own learning. In the article “What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” “Google lets us find the relevant pieces instantly.” (Carr) Google has helped students get answers to questions really fast. This made it where they can give an answer just like that. In the same article “What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,” “Google has made us smarter-both individually and collectively- because we have ready and free access to information.” (Carr) Google has been making the whole world smarter, you can look up a question and it will give it to you right away. Google can

Before technology, people would spend hours researching one topic and nowadays it takes a few clicks of a button and the information plus more comes up. This has saved us a lot of hours, but it also needs some getting used to. “The Internet, according to 88-year-old Lessing (whose specialty is sturdy typewriters, or perhaps pens), has “seduced a whole generation into its inanities.” (Goldwasser). The older generation doesn’t quite understand just how useful technology can be because they’re used to the ‘old fashion’ way.

For some, it does not seem important to make efforts to retain data, seeing that they possess an " electronic memory " capable of offering them any necessary information. Why strain our brain or memory when there is an also big and rich amount of information at our fingertips from any site? Many people think that to try to memorize an information which we can obtain in one, two clicks, is a waste of time. Hard drives have replaced the individual memory. Nowadays, for example, if we need to take knowledge of the works of a writer, we just have to write his name on the web, and we can even get explicit summaries about his works instead of reading the book itself and find our own explanations as formerly. “A study suggests that human memory is reorganizing where it goes for information, adapting to new technologies rather than relying purely on rote memory. We're outsourcing "search" from our brains to our computers…a new study confirms it: Google is altering your brain. More precisely, our growing dependence on the Internet has changed how -- and what -- our brains choose to remember. When we know where to find information, we're less likely to remember it” (Krieger, McClatchy); today’s society, we are called to deal with a lot of data on a daily basis, so some people prefer to rely on the internet, which is rich in ideas and quick to provide information, explanations, rather than do a job that could take a long time to perform; “In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates… feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful” (Carr 59); If our brain become as "empty box", we cannot have our own point of view, considering that what we are supposed to have for knowledge is a part of our personality; make our own study is essential to the formation of our