Today, the meaning of communication has completely changed. It has become much easier to sustain a relationship through social media and the constant interaction that it provides. In contrast, social media can also prove to destroy relationships. Some people may get so caught up in virtual relationships that they have little to no regard for actual relationships. They may become so used to communicating via internet that they lose basic communication skills and can’t hold a face to face conversation.
He has represented the Internet as the answer to all of society's worries. In both these articles both writers provide very convincing evidence weather on how the Internet is making us more brilliant or is it turning us brainless. In Nicholas Carr’s Article “Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” he argues the fact that the Internet indeed does make you “dumber,” almost scaring its reader to stay away from web usage. He takes a more scientific approach talking about how the Internet allows us to have a mass amount of information at any time, but with all that info comes distractions. He goes on about how those distractions hurt our mental thinking.
In Nicholas Carr essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” he states that people are losing focus easier than before and instead of reading the material, that they are skimming over it. Most of our time is spent on the internet. We tend to skim over information and move to the next thing, me myself I am guilty of this. Nicholas also makes the statement, “The Human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive. I feel like he uses this to show how the internet has skimmed our brains.
Humans cannot do a lot without a computer; they use it to communicate, socialize, to help each other for their jobs. Humans reduced themselves to a simple mechanism. In Lanier’s “You are not a gadget “book, describes how technology is becoming more humanistic and is taking over our decision making skills because the internet has gotten programmed to make them for us. Lanier writes “The process of locked in is like a wave gradually washing over the rule book of life, culling the ambiguities of flexible thoughts as more and more thought structure are solidified into effectively permanent reality”. What he is trying to say is, a website or a program created online first is an idea that gradually using it and learning it makes you mandated to, it always makes you to use it and your brain so get adapted to and you cannot avoid it.
This revolutionary way of communication can help build relationships and bonds between people. This fast speed of communication will also help one broadcast them self, and allows them to do it almost as soon as whatever they are broadcasting took place. This new way of communication can only make the world a better place, by linking people together and telling them what they need to know as quickly as possible. Building relationships on the internet is dangerous. Anyone can be behind the computer you are engaging with.
However, Google has a huge amount of information and much of it could be wrong. For example, the Wikipedia website is not a good source of information because normal people write the information in it and not specialists. Therefore, if we get wrong information, then our knowledge would be wrong. Carr also discussed that the Internet is an imaginary world, and all the people are behind the computer screens. Therefore, whenever we access a website, Google can collect more information about us, and if we access more websites, then that would be easier and faster for them to collect the information they want.
Since we are able to take advantage of Google or Baidu for searching information more easily, it's a waste of time to just read the whole resources for the limited information which can be easily spotted on search engine. For instance, the website, Encyclopedia, contains millions of information, not only in English version, but also in hundreds of other languages. The appearance of this websites saves the researchers enormous of time to look for data for their work and paper. Suppose they take the traditional ways to collect information, which is reading paper work, they would waste hours or even days just to spot the same information which can be searched in few
My Bishop Lyons speech 845 millon people are facebook users. Fact is we are now leading an increasingly virtual life there is no question about it. But what is the true cost of our virtual life? The first idea that springs to mind is obesity and the associated health issues of leading a more sedatory lifestyle but these are shallow easy to notice and even fixable problems. Unfortunatley upon deeper inspection there are much more damaging and dangerous issues with our virtual life.
"Yes, Google is hampering our ability to recall information." (Betsy Sparrow, Columbia University) The study also found that Google improves certain kinds of memory, like methods for retrieving information. Sparrow's findings aren't the whole story, though. As scientists have stressed since the dawn of web, the effects of Internet usage on cognition are pretty complicated. Search engines are rerouting our memory.
Now that technology is being used so abundantly, people are becoming socially isolated and disconnected from reality. So why must we feel the need and urgency of technologies capabilities to replace something as valuable as human interaction? Has technology grown so much that it is now the only source that’s relevant enough for a community to communicate freely with one another? Is it just more convenient for people to use these technologies as ways to express themselves to others, or is it a way to establish friendships at your own leisure? No matter how people use technology to interact with their daily lives, it is prudent that we understand, without moderate care and usage of these technologies, we are all doomed to be affected negatively.