How the Computer has Affected Me and My Family In this paper I will be explaining how computers play a role in my family’s life. Along with how much computers have changed my familys Life. I will explain how computers open the doors to endless access to the world. All this freedom however comes with a price. We as a family must realize that we will be losing security with every new site signed up for or every purchase made on-line.
Also, the Internet affects our brains. Our thoughts, memories and our characters always go with our concentrating abilities. So people who spend a lot of time on internet have low understanding, thinking,
“Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” An interesting concept I like about Nicholas Carr’s article “Does the Internet Make You Dumber” is how people have unbelievably become reluctant to deeper thoughts and the use of the human brain. The 21st century man is gradually losing the ability to deeply focus on a given problem but instead, we tend to sort for help from the internet rather than the usage of the natural resource from the brain. To begin, technology and all other found equipment that makes human life easier was meaningfully created by man. This clearly displays that the human brain is way too smarter than technology itself and the mind can only be improved through deeper thinking and problem solving. I couldn’t agree more with Nicholas Carr that the internet distracts and interrupts our brain rendering it shallow.
Carr thinks that excessive use of the internet might cause permanent changes to the way our brains work and we don’t have to remember as much, because we have RAM (Random Access Memory). Carr suggests that due to all the choices and distractions the internet provides its user whilst searching for information, it ‘turns us back to our native state of distractedness’ (Carr 373). Carr feels like due to the constant quick thinking skills that the internet demands us to have; we are losing our higher order cognitive abilities gained from focus reading such as from a book. Our ability to think in a creative and reflective way is diminishing. Carr feels the automatic way of thinking means we are ‘losing our mental discipline’ (Carr 375).
They can choose to engage in deep thinking activities. Too much of anything is not good for any one, and this also applies to internet usage. Scholars say that the price of technology is alienation and that this indicates that the more distracted an individual becomes, the less able they are to experience human emotions such as empathy and compassion. It is still too early to tell what the results of the future effects of the internet, but as Carr states, “An intellectual technology exerts its influence by shifting the emphasis of our thought. As the brain adapts to the new medium, the most profound changes will take place over several generations’
Just like some may say, “Computers, they maintain, are destroying literacy” (Gardner 2), Plato alleged the same in his era. It is easy to assume that, with proof of the past; current forms of literacy do not threaten human thought. In short, current literacy improves human thought and life style; not undermining it. Furthermore, Gardner examines how prompt changes in media release shock to those who argue that literacy will die. Gardner states that “those of us of a 19th- or 20th century frame of mind, books play a special,
Do you think that living in a technical world would destroy society? Well, in Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, technology is very advanced and seems to get people's attention. "You're not important. You're not anything" (Bradbury 163). This quote makes you realize that technology is taking over humans and the world has to do something about it.
The way technology has driven the last half of a century has changed life astronomically. Everyday people crave and desire the next big thing on the market. Whether it is the hybrid car or touch screen phone, the need for something more leaves room in life for unhappiness when those items are not obtained. Lao-Tzu strongly argued that when people do not want anything, they are okay with living simple. This is beyond the truth of today.
Deresiewicz echoed this thought when he said, "Not long ago, it was easy to feel lonely. Now, it is impossible to be alone." But with face-to-face contact at an all time low, one must wonder what this really means for us. It's no secret that the internet can be used to waste time, but what if it was affecting our offline time too? Often I've spent countless hours on a computer or watching a television; yet I still go to bed with a feeling that I have gotten nothing done.
From the railroads in the past, we have learned that faster transportation is better. Everything we need travels by boat or train or plane because we understand that is one of the most successful forms of transportation. Bye replacing home-based workshops with factories we have been able to grow our production rates which in the long run put our selling rates high. By switching from hand tools to large machines we have also been able to cut our jobs down, which allows for more money in the pockets of the business men. The industrial revolution has helped the nation and economy grown so much over the time but we know, nothing is perfect.