Technological advances have definitely been made the past decades. Some have been extremely helpful; however, they’ve also been detrimental. There have actually been research that show’s that our technology is in fact making our brain retain less memory. According to the independent “A recent study (you've probably forgotten it by now) suggests 90 per cent of us are suffering from digital amnesia. More than 70 per cent of people don't know their children's phone numbers by heart, and 49 per cent have not memorized their partner's number. While those of us who grew up in a landline-only world may also remember friends' home numbers from that era, we are unlikely to know their current mobiles, as our phones do the job. The Kaspersky Lab concludes
Nicholas Carr wrote ‘How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds’ published in the Wall Street Journal in 2017. Carr believes that as the brain becomes reliant on smartphones the intellect diminishes.
About a month ago I attended a dinner with some close friends. As we all sat in the restaurant waiting for drink orders to be taken, I looked around the table and what I saw made me feel more than a little annoyed considering I had not seen some of these people (or spoken to some of them) in over a month. Everyone at the table had sat down and immediately took out their phone. After reading the article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, by Jean M. Twenge, the feelings experienced that evening at dinner were validated and broadened by the depth and scope of the article. Jean Twenge was persuasive because of the statistical data in her article.
That is the wide spread use and availability of the smart phone. I watched my mother get the first IPhone I was young and would play games on it and knew how to use it. Smart phones really changed my development through high school. I would text friends and not call them. I had and still have a Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. All this social media and texting cut down on the face to face talks I would have had with people. Even to this day I would rather shot someone an email then talk to them face to face, it’s more comfortable. Smart phones also tie into my age-graded influence. When I started to drive if I didn’t 100 percent know how to get to a place I would use GPS on my smartphone. The problem is I don’t know my way around my home town. My dad asked me to pick up some tools for him a couple of months ago. He told me directions to where the place was, he used street names and land markers. When he finished telling me this, I still didn’t know where it was. My dad looked at me and said,” when I was your age I knew where everything was, if I didn’t know where a place was I would try and sometimes find new places along the way”. I told him how I just use my GPS. I never remember where the places are because I just follow the voice. I don’t need to remember where places are anymore and that’s because of Smart Phones. Our generation is different from every generation beforehand
Our modern day society depends on technology for everything, can anyone imagine a life without their phone or computer? Probably not, social media and other popular applications have become so ingrained into our daily lives. Not only can we connect with people anytime throughout the day but we also have so many useful applications that help us on a daily basis. Thinking back to when I was eight years old, I couldn 't wait for sixth grade because my parents had promised to get me a cell phone, I remember counting down the days till the summer of fifth grade was over because I already knew which cell phone I wanted. Once I got it I couldn’t stop showing my mom all of the cool things it could do. Which looking back at it today, it really couldn
Technology has changed our world dramatically over the last several decades. Several generations before us did not have air conditioning, telephones, television much less internet. However, today we have access to all of this and more. Technological advances have not only made changes in how we communicate, but also in how everyday tasks are done. The New York Times explains how social media affects children’s behavior and academics, and how the concept of dating has been altered while Louis C. K. explains how the 21st century takes little things for granted and YouTube channel charstarlineTV shows how daily activities can no longer be done without the use of cellphones.
In the news article Smartphones Don’t Make us Dumb the issue of smartphones and what they are doing to our attention spans is brought up. It is believed that smartphones aren’t destroying human memory, but is taking away their desire to focus. Today people spend hours on their technology, and what most people see when they spend so much time on the technology is playing fast pace games, and short videos. This is causing the brain to get into a habit of faster paced activities, but it’s not damaging humans attention. Technology has remove the want to learn or pay attention because people know there is something better to do with their time just at their fingertips. The reality is, human’s attention spans are the same as they were 50 years ago.
“Sounds like an opportunity for smartness-but only if we choose to take it.” (Weinberger 23) This quote is capable of summarizing all benefits and disadvantages of smart phones. It has already been proven above how drastically smart phones can help society. However, this can only happen if we choose to use it correctly. The truth is that without smart phones, the world would be far worse off than it is now. If we didn’t have an improved method of communication, be it E-mail, calling, etc., then international diplomacy would be even worse than it is now and we would likely be in the middle of world war
According to article b, “what really makes us intelligent isn’t our ability to find lots of information quickly. It’s our ability to find lots of information quickly. It’s our ability to think deeply about that information” With everything a click away, we aren’t truly thinking deeply as we would with a book in our hands- with technology you can transport nearly anywhere and get the information without truly searching for it. Making a connection to real life, you are more likely to remember information you write down- which is why a teacher makes you rewrite words and their definitions. With technology or texting, the information just flies past us- and there are studies to support this. As according to a new study, “Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University and UCLA Los Angeles respectively, students who wrote out their notes by hand actually learn more than those who type their notes on laptops” This proves my point, and goes as far as to suggest that new information goes down the drain. We have grown so attached to our phones, and spend less time to enjoy the moment, and there are many studies that would back it up, but we’ll reference a study by Fairfield University in 2003 found that “taking photos reduces our memories” and it's as if the phone has separated us, making people more scatterbrained, forgetful, and even ignorant. however, even with all this information, we have been advancing, and the pros outweigh the cons- not everyone can take a pen and paper everywhere they go- phones help us everyday and there isn’t enough evidence to suggest we are becoming more
Although Nicholas Carr’s argument about how the use of internet is causing “information loss,” there’s no doubt that the internet has become a universal tool that benefits us more than harms us. To further validify my pro internet position I’d like to remind you that without the technology’s we have developed over the course of the past century; we wouldn’t have 3D organ printers that potentially save lives, we wouldn’t have access to the many cultures that inhabit the giant orb we live on; we would be more “uneducated” in a sense that we would be disconnected. Even though we survived and thrived before technology, houses, cars, and modern medicines, we were primal and we learned how to adapt to the changes the world threw at us. Considering that was hundreds of years ago that’s not the case for today.
Today, technology is simply everywhere. Nowadays individuals seem to go through withdrawals if they forget their cell phones at home, almost as if it’s a lifeline. According to a new study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average young American, ages 8 to 18, spend more than 7 ½ hours a day using a smart phone, computer, television, and/or other electronics devices. There is no doubt that this statistic has risen over the years. In the 21st century, we are quick to judge the negatives of how the Internet and technology is affecting us, but should we? Or is it time to realize that technology is now the way of life? In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Nicholas Carr argues about how the Internet affects our thought process on what I would call, looking at the glass half empty. Although Carr makes a very good argument, I believe there are many ways to look at the glass half full when it comes to technology.
Technology has been steadily growing in the past few decades and has largely been put into good use by well-known entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, as well as Bill Gates. Smartphones are an example of advancement in technology and this could be seen through its evolution from the once bulky mobile phones operated in the eighties to the touch screen phones that are now considered a norm among the society. However, Ron Friedman, in his article, “Is Your Smartphone Making You Dumb?”, mentioned that the mere presence of a cell phone has the power to interfere with complex cognitive activities. According to Friedman (2015), the experiments carried out had overall similar results: the presence of cell phones, whether in use or not,
Cell phones are ruining our social skills, compromising our attention spans and increasing distractions. However, like with most things, there are positive and negative factors that must be accounted for; this technology has much to offer like unparalleled conveniences that were unfathomable a short decade ago. Smart phones keep us connected to people in a way like never before across time zones, distances and decades, they are an easy way of communication, humans have access to a wide range of knowledge on the internet access and through social media, they have revolutionized the way business is conducted and humans can be connected to news around the rest of world like never before.
Technology has become a popular thing within families. Studies have shown that 8-18-year-olds spend over seven hours a day using technology. That is over 50 hours a week. That is key family time that they are spending on their phones and tablets. Also since they are spending so much time on their electronics, they are losing valuable skills. Those skills include talking with friends and family and negotiating with people. Since they have lost that skill they are easily distracted and they find it hard to read subtle signs in developing and maintaining relationships. Another effect that technology is having on people’s lives is that more humans are mentally absent when sitting with a group of people. Also colleges have performed studies that are showing that many people of the younger generation do not have the same level of emotional skill as those of ten years ago. But most people think that it is the younger generation. That is not the truth. Almost everyone alive today is technology savvy. In conclusion, technology is slowly taking over our lives.
As the world heads into the twenty-first century, innovative types of technology are rapidly growing and changing more than ever before. Not only is technology, like computers and personally owned devices like cell phones, tablets, etc., moving and advancing with new applications coming out, but this technology is beneficial to everyday lives by making tasks easier. For example, having a banking application on ones smart phone makes checking savings and other accounts easier. Instead of going into the bank, one can pull it up on their cell phone. Aaron Smith, a researcher for the Pew Research Center's Internet Project, states “Eighty five percent of American adults now own a cell phone of some kind” (Smith 2) and according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of homes with cell phones increased from 36 percent to 71 percent between 1998 and 2005 (Edwards 1), and that was just in 2005. Estaminets for the number of cell phone owners around the world come close to about six billion people (Smith 2). Cell phones are not the only technology increasing. Other technologies like iPads, tablets and other personally owned devices make daily tasks easier by increasing the rate of access to information. Technology’s job is to help society make activities, like finding information, faster and easier. Due to the abundance of technology in our world, children are growing up learning how to use these tools, and expecting them to be apart of their day to day lives much like how technology is becoming a crucial part to their parents every day life. This includes seeing and using different types of technology at school.
“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” This is the quote of Albert Estein, the most famous science. This quote is what he predicted when he was alive. In my view, his prediction becomes correctly. Look at your world, Almost people use technology every day, especially children. They eat in the same place, same table, but they use mobile phone to communicate with another one. It is really ridiculous. In addition, cell phones also affect to human life and human health in a bad way. With the previous generations, we need to know the negative effect of cell phones and help our’s children avoid in the future.