Reading texts, checking e-mails, pressing links, listening to music, watching videos… We are doing so many things on the same time that we hardly remember any of them. Our concentration diminishes, also when we’re just reading a book. It looks like we have to do everything faster and more superficial instead of getting into a specific action. In his book he quotes a research in which two groups of test persons were asked to look something up on Google. One group contained experienced Internet surfers.
Nicholas Carr says, in his book, The Shallows, that because of his constant use of computers and the Internet, he has become unable to concentrate on one thing for long periods of time. He can no longer read books without losing interest in them after a few short pages. He doesn’t understand things at great depth, he looks for the shallow understanding of many things. I agree with what Carr said about what using the internet and technology has done to our ability to concentrate and focus on one thing and to read a book and understand things at a deeper level. Since using the Internet, I have noticed that when I look through magazines, I LOOK through them not read them.
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.
Some being more valid than others, initially I didn’t look into any specific one I just bookmarked all the ones that I had found while using google. Next I went on to a more old fashioned research technique and decided to take a field trip to the library. Using the online search the library provides us with I found several books having to do with both Guatemala and the United states during the time of the coup d’ etat. I started looking for the books in the library and came across many that were useless to me and many that had tons of facts that I knew would be amazing towards the research. Then as I usually do I stopped working on the project and procrastinated to the last moment possible.
In the Han and Roman societies technology was turning into a main consideration in many residents' regular lives. Nonetheless, the state of mind with respect to the utilization of the mechanical developments alternate in a few ways being that some individuals were positive of these uses and others were angry against the new employments of innovation or generally receptive on how it could get to be better. In many situations, there were some residents that did not agree with the technology advances and were not pleased with it. In the first century CE, an upper-class Roman philosopher elaborates on how individuals who get to be creators are not best in class in light of the fact that individuals dependably enhance their creations. Discussing with the public, he tries to express that developments will dependably be enhanced, how productive is it in fact, in the event that it is never taking care of business.
| Personal opinions.The author uses his thoughts to get the reader to see his point of view. | The purpose of this quote is to get the point across, that technology is a wonderful thing, it just maybe is used it the wrong way. And now a days, people have become so dependent on it, because it’s made life so much easier, most people couldn’t live without it (at least they think they can’t). | If I’ve learned anything in the last decade about technology and human interaction, it’s that as screen time rises, direct human-to-human interaction falls off proportionally. (51) | I can’t really say how this affects me.
I’m not thinking the way that I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through the long stretches of prose (p. 67).’’ It’s an agreeable statement because there are times when you are trying to concentrate on reading an article on the computer and you get distracted from what you are reading. Opening up a new hardcover book is almost impossible for me.
The simpler the work gets with technology, the more we get dependent on it. In todays’ society, we could not find one single young child without using the available technology to him/her advantage/disadvantage. Technology made us dependent on it and we can't expect or imagine a life without using or even saying the word "technology". If becoming more tech stable makes your life easier than go for it but what happens if the energy
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
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