Tevin Hutchinson 11/10/2012 English 102 Technology plays a huge role in our everyday life. I do believe that technology has made our lives easier, but it also has made us more dependent on the technology itself. When using the internet for a dictionary you could easily get distracted. Anyone can put anything on the internet, so what you find might not be accurate. Most people find that looking things up on the internet is distracting because you are already on the web so why not check YouTube for a funny video, or update your status on the social network.
Most people find reading books easier so don’t some people like me because I prefer researching on the internet to searching for stuff in the library. Some people will support Carr by saying that the internet really makes us dumber but I’m on the opposite side because I defiantly think it makes as smarter especially with this technology that keeps improving as years come. All these things we have today and are able to access to will not be available without the internet because people or researchers wouldn’t have been able to get accurate information about what they were looking
The windows operating system exemplified true multitasking. Before its invention, people did one thing at a time on computers such as word processing and sending email. In other words, it simply had no capacity to do both at the same time. People thought this multitasking would lead to an increase in productivity, but in many ways productivity has decreased because people are now no longer as focused. British biologist J.
Video Case Assignment #2 Questions Questions: 1. a. Some advantages of an online survey of a cross section of Internet households are lower costs, instant results, instant updates, and better responses. The disadvantages are that not all households have Internet access, if the survey is sent via email, it may be considered junk mail. Also, some people just fill out the surveys to get the promotional offer and will just fill out anything. The disadvantages in not being able to reach as many individuals due to lack of internet or lack of email accessibility, provides major negative impacts for research.
Is Google Making Us Stupid Summary In his essay "Is Google Making Us Stupid" Nicholas Carr suggests that even though the web has been a godsend to him as a writer, new age media is changing our way of reading and learning. As we reach out to the most innovative ways to collect information, books and older media are being phased out. Carr suggests that when reading online we skim the text for key bits of information instead of reading texts completely, which is called "Power Browsing." Rather than reading books fully and understanding topics, we are merely power browsing by clicking from one site to the next staying connected to the text just long enough to find what it is we're looking for. Carr uses the analogy, " Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words.
This is achieved through asynchronous HTTP calls to the server and dynamic updates of the HTML DOM. The asynchronicity allows this to happen without the user being blocked from using the web page. It cuts down on traffic because typically less data is moved around during an AJAX call since you are not updating the entire page, just a portion of it. • Based on the Keston (2008) article, do you believe that mashups will completely replace the creation of HTML web pages from scratch? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using mashups?
Nowdays, people started to forget that the internet and new media technologies intersperse our notice but the book helps to keep our attention. So people need to read a books in order to improve their attention. In the article “ Does the Internet Make you Dumber or Smarter?, “ Nicholas Carr asks question that does the internet make people dumber or smarter?. I think a lot of people want to know the answers too. Carr thinks that the net makes people dumper because he proved the net makes people scattered and superficial thinkers.
At the surface, it seems like Google would be considered as a helpful research tool—pages and pages of information are just a few keystrokes away! However, Google has as many disadvantages and advantages. According to Nicholas Carr’s Is Google Making Us Stupid, the search engine is changing the way he processes information. “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing.
He explains how people are on a disadvantage when they rely on e-books rather than books. Carr uses very meticulous instances to illustrate his way of thinking and then he uses his logical discussion to prove that Google is making our lives more “machinelike” and lazier. The instances and references used such as results of reliable studies and opinions from people from a variety of professional background are well-organized, which proves the profound knowledge of the author in many fields. Since this source has strong. Since this article strongly disagrees with those who support the use on internet for daily tasks like reading, this article helps me to lay my argument that internet deteriorates our reading ability.
It has become more convenient to open a search engine than to visit a library or bookstore. With access to a computer and an internet connection, the knowledge of the world is just a click away. There are not many topics that one could not find information on, especially on Wikipedia. Technology changed the way people find the information they are looking for and, unfortunately, it might not be for the best. Works Cited Berkman, Fran.