The Hal Effect

My fascination with technology sparked my interest in the health care field and ultimately in occupational therapy. As a computer technician I felt how gratifying it was to help people adapt to their environment to accomplish their daily tasks. Seeing injury and exhaustion set in on my coworkers as they sat in their grey cubicles for hours, moved me to craft ergonomic workspaces, such as replacing their seats with yoga balls to improve their posture and spinal alignment, while providing others with ergonomic keyboards and mice that alleviated the numbing pain caused by their carpal tunnel syndrome. The support that I provided left the people around me healthy and happier, and gave me a sense of accomplishment that was unique and fulfilling. Occupational therapy provides me this rewarding feeling daily, as I help my patients rebuild the skills necessary to participate in the activities they love and depend on.

Artificial Intelligence has a very beneficial impact on humanity. I believe that it can replicate the actions and decisions of humans without the impact of fatigue, time, or emotion. I think that if AI advances more jobs in the IT industry will be developed, and more people will want to work for industries that develop these new technologies. Machines driven by AI technology can replace the consistency, tedious work some humans have to do. In the article “Artificial Intelligence May Usher in a New Golden Age,” written by Faith Popcorn, supports my claim that AI could potentially reduce the tediousness of work for a person. It also says that robots can now diagnose patients, while doctors could not. Humans need to continue their ambition to

Technology has become a daily part in one's lives where it helps people do the simplest of tasks and allows time consuming tasks be completed in seconds. People don't have to go to a bookstore to buy books anymore since e-books made the process easier or have to wait in long lines at the DMV when people can make an appointment through their phones. The amount of time technology saves people isn't beneficial though, according to Paul Goldberger and Christina Kline technology has belittled experiences that they believe are part of the experiences of life on a daily basis.

Technology in today's world affect everyone about the same since we can not live without. The amount of different activities and possibilities to do on the internet using different devices is immense . Whatever you want if it is food,games, or researching something anyone can receive in a matter of seconds. Tammy Kennon who is the author of , “ 5 New Brain Disorders that Were Born Out of the Digital Age” states the negatives about the technology devices that run the world. She tells us about how our patience, attention spans, and memory are all affected due to that fact that we are obsessed with electronics. In today’s world everyone relies on web searches like google to answer a question or do something for them. When a research was conducted by researchers they found out that”[O]ne -Third of them did not even try, reaching for google immediately” this shows how much people rely

There is a huge price we pay for assuming that technology is an inanimate vesicle thing. To not recognize the impact such devices have on our brains is a naive thing to do. Based on the research that Nicholas G. Carr presented in his book The Shallows the human brain is becoming more disorganized and less focused at the task at hand wanting mostly immediate gratification. There is a good and bad side to everything and tecnology is not to be taken lightly and can be abused just as easily as anything else and can abuse us in return.

The author addresses the undeniable issues of society’s constant connection to technology. The brain can develop imbalances, for example, deficits in ability to concentrate, short attention, memory span, and emotional disturbances, such as depression (Gwinn

Researchers say that the stimulation from the use of technology “provokes excitement” which causes dopamine levels to rise. Dopamine is a hormone in the brain that causes a feeling of wellness and happiness that can be addictive. These urges that we have interrupt family life and work, also they dullen creativity and deep thought. Research on what negative effects technology has on us was even done by Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse. The opposing side argues saying technology has “benefits,” but it’s the overuse and abuse of those benefits that also has a negative effect on our daily

Today’s society is drastically different from the previous. In the past, the most advanced technology was working electricity, no one had to worry about checking their work emails at home. Today we are constantly surrounded by technology, in fact we come in contact with it so often we are almost fully dependent on it in the work place, and at home. Richard Restak shows us the negative effects of that dependency in his essay “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era”. We are constantly at work with technology, and it is literally changing the way we operate. Matt Richtel has proof of this in his article based off a study by some neurologists titled “Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain”. Today, we have little to no control over our addiction to technology and our work life, the two have merged into one stress filled existence. However, Alexandra Samuel lets us know there are better ways to deal with our technology based work addiction than quitting cold turkey in her article “’Plug In Better’: A Manifesto”. Due to technology, our work and personal lives have become impossible to decipher, leaving no time for a stress free and balanced life away from the office.

The impact of technology on the way we think is affecting us in a positive way for example in the article “Smarter Than You Think; How Technology Is Changing Our Minds For The Better” by Clive Thompson, man and technology working together increases our intellectual capacity. Thompson mentions the importance of mindfulness several times, noting like Pang, that humans have always been easily distracted. A key to letting technology help you be smarter is to tame your brain and practice focus. Clive Thompson uses strong examples in his article

Technology is ever becoming a more complex and integrated part of the daily lives of millions across the world. As technology advances, spreads, and changes, we need to be aware of the impact upon us as well as the rest of society at all times. It has grown to become a part of almost everything we do and has resulted in many positive as well as negative impacts. Some examples of positive impacts are increased efficiency with tasks such as building cars and access to information and some negative impacts include obesity and poor sleep habits. I agree with Clive Thompson to an extent; modernized technologies need to be understood and used wisely at all times and we can expand our intellect by working alongside them but, they don’t give the user an unlimited wealth of knowledge. I disagree with Nicholas Carr that using electronics is damaging humans’ cognitive abilities.

A recent Pew poll shows there is an increasingly substantial amount of public disagreement about basic scientific facts, facts such as the human though process (Scientific American). People in today’s society believe that studies, for example the Stanley Milgram Experiments, are falsified and irrelevant. In “The Perils of Obedience” Stanley Milgram, an experienced psychologist at Yale, explains how the human mind reacts to commands when placed under extreme stress. However, Diana Baumrind, a clinical and developmental psychologist, disagrees with Milgram in her article “Review of Stanley Milgram 's Experiments on

the net can give us access to a whole world of new ideas if we are able to use it. The optimist said there are three technological advances innovations in tech of today. They are a massive shift to the mobile phone, the cloud, and advances in machine learning . We now have five billion mobile devices. I have family members tell me there aging parents with Alzheimer is no longer able to intellectually learn how to use the phone to text or to find the little slides on the phone. They laugh and we have showed them again and again but they just cant catch on . The person that needs the counseling about empathy is that patients children. The cloud is the second area driving change. Companies can outsource critical parts of their IT, There was times when that was unthinkable. . The cloud has the ability to create , share infrastructure, store, retrieve, information more economically. I would like further information on what a cloud is. I know that our server probably stores everything on our mental health patients that used to be in paper charts and I always can find other providers assessments and note and find my schedule. The third area of advancement is machine learning . This is where technology is growing the fastest. Advanced algorithms means computers can now diagnose and prescribe treatments for a range of illnesses with speed and precision. This is definitely happening in the private medical psychiatric practice I work for. So, what do these implications mean ? Sadly, It means that about 40 percent of jobs will be lost for people that don't keep up with technology. They have predicted this , and I have seen physicians, nurses, and counselors that are older , say 60-80 retire , or say they will retire sooner because technology is related to having to adopt and change. Jobs will be done by computers instead of people, because it can be done more cheaply and accurately. As a nursing instructor , for example test are graded

Psychological research may be undertaken on a subset of society; however the importance of the results may have an effect way beyond the group tested. The value of psychological research varies and the same results can be used in different ways by different groups of society.

George Elton Mayo is credited with founding the human relations movement. Mayo conducted an experiment in the 1920’s and 1930’s know as the Hawthorne study. Two of the main aspects of the study centered around illumination in the work place and varying levels of break time and work hours (Wickström, 2000). The illumination study consisted of four different experiments over the course of three years. In each experiement, there was a control group and a study group. In the varying studies, the researchers experimented with varying levels of light and varying sequences of increasing and decreasing the level of light (“Hawthorne effect”). Throughout the experiments, researchers would often find patterns of increased productivity, leading them to believe that they had

Would the change pose a threat to a familiar or established situation where routine, predictability and comfort rule the day? But then on reflection, changes could have a positive effect, perhaps a change could open up an opportunity to learn new technologies and thereby an advancement in personal and professional development.