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Technology's Effect On Technology : The Influence Of Technology

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In the world, technology, is a tool that is constantly being used throughout society. With its aid, the world has made breakthroughs and discoveries which have brought advancements into the world. Although the increased ease of access to information has cause people to lose the incentive of gaining knowledge, in fact, technology has led to a more prosperous and progressive world for everyone, by providing society with higher-levels of thinking. Some say that the technology has caused people to lose the incentive of gaining knowledge due to the ease of information accessibility. With electronic devices being more accessible, people have become dependent on them. Instead of the world advancing, it is slowly beginning to decrease in creative thinking. The skill of using knowledge after initially being exposed to it, is a very useful skill that everyone should implement in their lives. However, this skills is slowly being neglected. Dr. Premuzic, a professor of business psychology says “Unsurprisingly, with all the knowledge of the world being now outsourced, crowdsourced, and cloudsourced, the individual storage of information is minimal”. With the aid of technology, people no longer need to keep information in long term memory. In a sense this makes people only temporarily intelligent. “That is, we will become more and more dependent of technology and the only intellectual disadvantage will be the inability (or unwillingness) to learn to use it”(Premuzic). As the world

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