Technology And Multitask: The Evolution Of Technology

The evolution of technology has been apparent in a society. We have been having a lot of opportunities to use technology in our life; therefore, we might not have days without using technology. Although technology might give people disadvantages, such as physical or mental issues, they are able to avoid having the issues by appropriate the uses of technology. People are able to have various kinds of information with technology; especially, internet helps the user to find a wanted source quickly and easily. Most of people might notice that technology gives the user more advantages than disadvantages. As the advantages of using technology on learning, people are able to share their ideas quickly and easily, to have the abilities of multitasks,

Some people multitask unconsciously in their life, but unconscious multitask does not mean an inappropriate action because situations might require them to do unconsciously. Videos, prints, radios, gaming formats allow people to multitask a lot (Purcell & Rainie, 2014). People in workplaces they have so many opportunities to multitask; for example, people might listen to radios from their computers while they print papers out. In our developed society, there are no days which we avoid multitasking. Americans were gaining 100,500 words per day in 2008 (Purcell & Rainie, 2014). Multitasking enables people to have the amount of the words, and they must have a lot of information. Although some people might think that technology prevents people from doing good performance. According to Carr (2010), the net makes people have constant distractions and interruptions. The user of internet can definitely have a lot of information and use helpful tools for learning. If we are able to have a lot of information by multitasking, we are able to have various kinds of knowledge. In a classroom, we might see some people who type on laptops while they listen to a teacher. As an experiment at Stanford University, 49 people who did often multitask performed less than 52 people who avoided multitasking (Carr, 2010, 50). In fact, the 49 people were supposed to multitask heavily, but we do not need to have multitasking heavily, and what we