The Importance Of Technology In The Shallows By Socrates

In "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr the effect of internet usage and timeless inventions on our minds is explored. Carr argues that companies like Google are essentially prohibiting the transcendentalist movement. While it is beneficial to have such a large quantity of knowledge at our disposal, it also prevents us from reserving time to contemplate a problem. This, in turn, inhibits our ability of deep thinking. The more the internet is used the less we learn by ourselves. In light of these claims I support Carr's conclusion, with the world wide usage of the internet people are becoming less connected with there own ability to think critically. Living in the electronic age takes away our time to think deeply and to find solitude within our

In today’s day and age, it is safe to assume that technology is everything. In daily lifestyles of a normal person, it will become very hard to live without the use of technology. From waking up early in the morning with the help of an alarm clock, to going to sleep at night time by listening to soft sounds on a smartphone. not only the more modern generation, however all people have been inspired via technology in some manner, shape, or form. Today, from computers to laptops, smartphones to smart glasses, everything that a person needs is turning into “smart.” Or so one thinks! In the article, “is google making us stupid?" the author Nicholas Carr shares many remarkable insights about his views on technology advancing. Technological advance is affecting every person from early adolescent to an elderly person. As using

Attention to Nicholas Carr and his argument about technology it’s destroying our brains and affecting the world, the new generation and everyone. In recent discussions of the shallows, a controversial issue has been whether the internet is truly affecting us or not. On the other hand, however, others argue that the internet is making them more creative and some say it’s making them smarter. The best point in view on this issue, is reflected by Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows when he writes, “ The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation.” ( Carr,211). This insightful perspective demonstrates the truth of the matter; the price we pay to spend our day on the internet or using any other technology is alienation. That means

Carr’s factual diction demonstrates his conviction that the internet is causing people to become shallow individuals by saying that it causes a “slow erosion of our humanness and our humanity” and that it “poses a threat to our integrity as human beings.” The first half of his book covers topics about biology and technology, and how those two relates to each other. Then in the second half, he transitions into a detailed explanation about how the internet is actually harmful to us. After reading his thoughts about it, it is clear that the internet is in fact damaging to people.

Technology is changing who we are. This sentence will likely resonate with most people who feel it to be true. A remarkable American novelist, Jonathan Safran Foer, also the author of this article, wrote “How not to be alone” published on June 8th, 2013 in the New York Times. He conveys the idea that technology has created distance among people. In this wonderful editorial, Foer begins with pathos, then he uses logos to point out the fact that people are obsessed with cyberspace, he tries to build credibility by adding ethos, and he applies hyperbole and pathos again as well.

As the world enters a new era of technological progression and evolution, the popularity and use of technology for entertainment and more practical uses has skyrocketed. I have been alive long enough to observe some of the changes taking place. Some of these changes include including nearly everyone in high school texting on smartphone, so many people are choosing to talk over the internet rather than in person. We are truly in an age of technology, a sort of future imagined by those before us, where people keep their calendars on their phones and do work on tablets and computers instead of sheets of paper, and can video chat with anyone anywhere around the globe. With all of these huge changes happening to our world, I have truly been drawn

Humans are creatures of habit. We wake up at specific times to go about our days and then we sit down at our dining room tables to eat at specified times throughout the day, usually habitually. But, humanity hasn’t always been this algorithmic. It wasn’t until the advent of the mechanical clock that our lives began to mold around time. We changed. I would like to assume that we became more productive because of this change. However, humanity historically hasn’t perceived change as good. In Sherry Turkle’s “The Flight from Conversation” she negatively asserts that technology has changed the way we socialize and communicate by sacrificing conversation for our mere connection to each other through technology and allowing that connection to replace the former. In the same vein, Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” establishes the idea that technology has altered the way we critically read and think for the worse. As the title of his article suggests, Google (more broadly the internet) has simplified our reading style, and in turn is making us “stupid”. I choose to defy both these notions. Technology hasn’t become the catalyst for a society where we lose the ability to have social connections or critically read and think. Rather, humans have adapted to change through the use of technology as a new way of thinking, reading, connecting, and socializing in attempt to become more productive and efficient.

Now a day, due to the improvement to technology, “those we depend on are more accessible today than at any point” (Social Media as Community) than ever before in history. Since technology is much more easily accessible, it has help people gain useful knowledge. But now, consequently, people have now become hopelessly distracted by them, helplessly devoted to them. People have become so helplessly devoted to technology that they spend countless hours texting, sharing, playing games, and watching YouTube that it has caused them to have “fractured thinking and lack of focus persist” (Attached to Technology). For example, “the Net bombards us with and other bits of data, and everyone of those interruptions breaks our train of thoughts” (Is Google Making Us Stupid?), which can cause people to understand, learn and remember less than they potentially

The Web provides news and important information at a faster rate than the pony express ever did, but the human mind may pay a penalty for the gain. One would think it is possible. If people only take the easy to reach, shiny apples from the tree, they would miss the harder to reach sweeter apples that take more time and risk acquiring. This is like searching for keywords, taking the easiest answers without bothering to read the entire book. Somehow we miss out. In order for individuals to retain their ability to think and also express human emotion to family and friends they must be able to achieve balance much like Goodman’s “snail mail vs. email”. At the next opportunity to correspond people must decide whether a short to- the –point e-mail is appropriate or whether a longer hand-written letter is appropriate. Technology has its place. For people who have experienced life with and without technology they appreciate it. However, they also appreciate a day at the beach without cellphones and a good book for a chance to relax and escape technology if only for a moment. (962

Technology has become an intrinsic part of our lives, we have become dependent on it. It can be said that we cannot survive without it. The electronics that the advancement in communication and network technology has provided us with has become a part of our bodies. The obvious effects of these advancements can surely be seen in our society today. Human relationships have changed quite a bit. The way people interact and behave was affected as well. Not only that but also the perception of human relations and feeling of intimacy has shifted or evolved from its pre-existing perception. Communication technology holds a special place in both Sherry Turkle’s and Adam Gopnik’s essays. In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Alone Together”, she discusses what technology does to us rather than what it does for us. In her previous books she discusses what computer does to us and how people use computer to forge false identities for their own pleasure. In “Alone Together”, she talks about how technology has taken both of these stories to a new level. In the Adam Gopnik’s essay “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli”, he offers a close look into a specific modern American lifestyle, the life and behaviors of the New Yorker. He also deeply analysis the different perceptions of busyness throughout history. Later into his essay, he argues how the advancements of communication technology has changed the face of the society. He discusses whether it has made the community a better and a more connected place

Since the beginning of time, man has walked the earth, and the natural instincts of the fight for survival, our love and nurturing nature, life processes, and protective instincts have taken man through many eras of time. Throughout this time man has evolved, and so have the abilities to develop useful tools and instruments to aid man through life. In the prehistoric days, man built tools from stone, weapons to hunt, built fires, invented cookware. We are forever evolving, introducing more technology, greater advances, compelling efficiency and immediacy, pushing increased productivity. We lavish ourselves with the numerous benefits of advanced engineering, available at our fingertips, or even at our voice commands. We form bonds, connections, attachments to our technological devices; consequently we have acclimated to relying on technology to meet some of our social, emotional, and physical needs. I was born into this era of time, which formed me into the individual and entrepreneur I am today. I appreciate my smartphone, cherish my truck, value the internet, and am thankful for all the technological gifts my ancestors accomplished to benefit all our future generations. This progression of technological advances, leading us to the access of the internet, has sparked conversations and various opinions which are discussed in the essays of Nicholas Carr’s, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” and Kevin Kelley’s “Technophilia,” in reflection on the positive

With the invention of new technologies, people have become more infatuated with drama and irrelevant matters. Even though the internet can be used as a great source for answers and thought-provoking information, it is used for other more mindless and selfish reasons. Some people could care more about something completely irrelevant on their phone than something serious that is happening right before them. And as for our future, technology will become more advanced and start to reduce our “capacity to think” as Postman put it. It is already shown with things like

“Life over these past 200 years has changed more than it did in the 10,000 years that preceded it.” (statisticbrain.com) Everyone knows that when someone spends time on their electronic devices they cut down social interaction. The younger generation presupposes that using their smartphones or other devices with communication will actually make them more communicative. However, that is not the case, because humans need face-to-face intercommunications. I have been magnetized into that hole that everyone is in because of believing what everyone is doing. Spending more of my daytime looking at a screen and getting one of many adverse side effects like sleep deprivation. Even my younger brother of 6 started playing video games; at age 10 he has a phone because people have become really susceptible to electronic devices for easy communication. I personally have been distressed by my phone and I have been getting less sleep as the days go by. There is also an impact on how we matriculate as a community. I believe that electronics have affected me negatively because I have got very distracted from my homework and studying. Technology is affecting interpersonal communication within people all around the world and a person psychologically and how people communicate to one another via speech.

In the three decades that the internet has been around, the world has hastily adapted to this massive online resource. Everything from business, commerce, education, and numerous other aspects of our lives, all have been affected by the rise of the world wide web. As John Naughton wrote in his essay, “The internet: is it changing the way we think?”, although society had recurring fears of successful and helpful inventions, such as printing or photography, and now, the internet, it doesn’t question their validity (474). He explains that just because fears are recurring, they are not equated to irrational. As with each new innovation, there are bound to be impacts in the world, whether or not it’s a positive consequence (474). Steven Pinker states in his “Mind Over Mass Media” essay, “Search engines lower our intelligence, encouraging us to skim on the surface of knowledge rather than dive to its depths. Twitter is shrinking our attention spans” (481). While his claim is inverse to Naughton’s, Pinker agrees that the internet has changed many aspects of our culture. Both authors signal that the internet has indeed pushed out old traditions and brought new ones with it, and as a result, our society has been affected as well. Either for great or worse, a change in the human environment signals a change in the way people react and think. As such, it is understable why being to exposed to the internet is slowly, but surely, influencing and altering the mind. Evolution is an

Today is the age of technology and information from around the world awaits for you online. It’s uploaded to the cloud, and it sits there, just waiting for someone to pull it from its cyber-slumber. ZAP. In an instant you are able to access almost any bit of information you could possibly want. The everyday life of many has morphed into something entirely new. What our lives consist of are things that were once unimaginable to mankind. Instragram pictures, YouTube videos, Snapchats and Facebook posts are the new form of communication that we have adapted. The previous generations had much simpler lives with a more minimalist lifestyle that lacked the unnecessary luxuries we have today.Somewhere in time, we progressed from a moderate lifestyle to something rapacious. Technology has managed to speed up the process in which we live our lives and how we function on a day to day basis. Processes that would have taken us days before, only take seconds now. For example, contacting a relative or friend that live states away, can be reached within minutes by sending a text. Now, from a certain perspective, one may view this as a positive. (Who doesn’t want a little more free time, right?) The issue of this is not that we have free time, it is the deep rooted dependency that we have on technology. With each passing generation we become more and more accustomed to technology, which we have allowed to engulf us. We have become one with the cellphone and laptop we use daily. We are