Analysis Of How Computers Change The Way We Think

“How Computers Change the Way We Think” Sherry Turkle is a Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Turkle writes mainly on subject matters of technology and the relation to the human mind. Sherry Turkle shares her thoughts about computers and how they affect the human mind in her article, "How Computers Change the Way We Think." Turkle put it plain and simple in her article “How Computer’s Change the way we Think”. Turkle states, “the tools we use to think with change the ways in which we think (298).”

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For instance, Saddy stated: “Philosophers, psychologists, and computer scientists are seeing various indications that computers are profoundly changing how we find, consume, and retrieve information; how we organize and express our thoughts; how we define and solve problems.” As Saddy put it plain and simple: “The common theme is that the computer is reshaping its users in ways that may ultimately reshape all of us--how we think, how we live, and who we are.” To compare, Saddy states that the common era of the computer in this day and age is shaping the human mind and its ability to see and perform everyday tasks, just as Professor Turkle stated. Both Guy Saddy and Sherry Turkle agree that computers change how the human mind understands, how it remembers things, how the mind theorizes, how it communicates, solves problems, and how the mind explores new things/ideas. Also, both writers agree that the computer and online networks are turning lives into lies. As Turkle stated in her article “Online worlds can provide valuable spaces for identity play (301)”, likewise, Guy Saddy discussed the issue of multiple identities. He

Could this breed the clinically recognized problem of multiple-personality disorder?”

Sherry Turkle also said: “ But Some people gain fluency in expressing multiple aspects of self may find it harder to develop authentic selves (301).” Both writers agree that computers change the way the human mind thinks and the ability to think. The computer is reshaping its users in ways that may ultimately reshape all of us--how we think, how we live, and who we are."

In conclusion, both writers Guy Saddy and Sherry Turkle agree that computers definitely have an effect on the human mind. Whether it’s how the mind thinks, acts, remembers information, interprets information, explores things, simulates and depicts one’s self etc., the computer changes the way we think. In this day and age we rely on the computer as bearer of a way of knowing and a way of seeing the world, we have all become “computer people” as Turkle says, “The tools we use to think with change the ways in which we think (298).” Computers are becoming the way we see ourselves and are defining who we are as a