Lilyan blood
Nolan sibley
Technology provides us with easy access to many different facets and consequently lowers our ability to think deeply as things become easier simultaneously fostering antisocial behaviors. It is all too easy to look up the answer to many of life’s problems and questions that come up on a day-to-day basis. Nicholas Carr, author of “Is Google Making us Stupid?” argues that “It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and tv.Technology has allowed us to wrap many of these tools that were once so important to understand and function as humans neatly into a small handheld device. The introduction of this technology has made things so accessible that it does not require deep thought or consideration and ultimately lowers our ability to communicate, empathize and think deeply. “It is a struggle to get children to talk to each other in class.. What they are sharing is what is on their phones”. Children are learning from the behaviors of their parents, they don’t feel the need to connect with each other as deeply because they can form many of those connections on their devices. Children used to play with the neighbors and be outside for entertainment, now because of the easy access of technology they feel that they can remain inside and get an equivalent of entertainment. These behaviors can foster an antisocial next generation. Overall, it seems to us that technology is having a negative impact on our ability to form deep connections within ourselves and with our peers.
Emily Scheff
Cass Sanger
Malayna Hawxwell
Technology provides us with a space of comfort with everything we need to fill “connections” so we tend to turn to the internet and away from people. This is because “the internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator, and our telephone, and our radio and TV” (Carr p5-6). It’s everything we need it to be. In conjunction with Carr’s ideas Turkle also agrees that we turn to the internet. She says, “Among family and friends, among colleagues and lovers, we turn to our phones instead of each other. We readily admit we would rather send an electronic message or mail than commit to a face-to-face meeting or telephone call”(Turkle 343). Technology tempts us with ease to turn away from present moments. It seems to be harder for us to focus on the here and now given how much technology and distractions are available to us.
Although technology is useful, it is also taking over human traits. Over the years, technology has absorbed many tools into its repertoire, eliminating the need for those tools outside of the internet. Nicholas Carr discusses this in his essay, Is Google Making Us Stupid? He believes that technology is becoming one all-encompassing tool. As Carr states, “The internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV” (Carr 6). While convenient, this is also dangerous because technology can start to take over things that humans need other humans for by offering an artificial alternative. Sherry Turkle, in her book The Empathy Diaries, discusses how technology is taking over even the need for human-to-human conversation. She argues, “From the early days, I saw that computers offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship and then, as the programs got really good, the illusion of friendship without the demands of intimacy. Because, face-to-face, people ask for things that computers never do” (Turkle 346). Technology, as well as adding many essential everyday tools, has also made human life “easier” by eliminating the need for interactions between humans. This is a slippery slope which could lead us down a road of permanent solitude.
Jaidin Fuentes, Grant Isdale, Cam Kearney
English Composition Berkley Group Project
Professor Miller
October 22nd, 2024
It is our belief that the human mind can be shaped and transformed to adapt to different situations. The idea of the mind being shaped and transformed can be an interesting topic. As Nicholas Carr says in the article Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Carr quotes James Olds, a professor of neuroscience saying “The brain has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions” (Carr 4). We find Olds to be right in this idea because the human mind has done this before time and time again. For example on page 4, Carr points out a scenario where this once occurred using the mechanical clock saying, “When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating ‘like clockwork’” and “in deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our sense and started obeying the clock”. Our brain are able to be changed due to it having a trait called neural plasticity. This helped us to adapt to our environment and become more efficient no matter where we are or what situation we find ourselves in.
4 thoughts on “IN-CLASS WORK 10-22”
Lilyan blood
Nolan sibley
Technology provides us with easy access to many different facets and consequently lowers our ability to think deeply as things become easier simultaneously fostering antisocial behaviors. It is all too easy to look up the answer to many of life’s problems and questions that come up on a day-to-day basis. Nicholas Carr, author of “Is Google Making us Stupid?” argues that “It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and tv.Technology has allowed us to wrap many of these tools that were once so important to understand and function as humans neatly into a small handheld device. The introduction of this technology has made things so accessible that it does not require deep thought or consideration and ultimately lowers our ability to communicate, empathize and think deeply. “It is a struggle to get children to talk to each other in class.. What they are sharing is what is on their phones”. Children are learning from the behaviors of their parents, they don’t feel the need to connect with each other as deeply because they can form many of those connections on their devices. Children used to play with the neighbors and be outside for entertainment, now because of the easy access of technology they feel that they can remain inside and get an equivalent of entertainment. These behaviors can foster an antisocial next generation. Overall, it seems to us that technology is having a negative impact on our ability to form deep connections within ourselves and with our peers.
Emily Scheff
Cass Sanger
Malayna Hawxwell
Technology provides us with a space of comfort with everything we need to fill “connections” so we tend to turn to the internet and away from people. This is because “the internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator, and our telephone, and our radio and TV” (Carr p5-6). It’s everything we need it to be. In conjunction with Carr’s ideas Turkle also agrees that we turn to the internet. She says, “Among family and friends, among colleagues and lovers, we turn to our phones instead of each other. We readily admit we would rather send an electronic message or mail than commit to a face-to-face meeting or telephone call”(Turkle 343). Technology tempts us with ease to turn away from present moments. It seems to be harder for us to focus on the here and now given how much technology and distractions are available to us.
Alicia Burr, Celia Caron, Emerson Giella
Although technology is useful, it is also taking over human traits. Over the years, technology has absorbed many tools into its repertoire, eliminating the need for those tools outside of the internet. Nicholas Carr discusses this in his essay, Is Google Making Us Stupid? He believes that technology is becoming one all-encompassing tool. As Carr states, “The internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV” (Carr 6). While convenient, this is also dangerous because technology can start to take over things that humans need other humans for by offering an artificial alternative. Sherry Turkle, in her book The Empathy Diaries, discusses how technology is taking over even the need for human-to-human conversation. She argues, “From the early days, I saw that computers offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship and then, as the programs got really good, the illusion of friendship without the demands of intimacy. Because, face-to-face, people ask for things that computers never do” (Turkle 346). Technology, as well as adding many essential everyday tools, has also made human life “easier” by eliminating the need for interactions between humans. This is a slippery slope which could lead us down a road of permanent solitude.
Jaidin Fuentes, Grant Isdale, Cam Kearney
English Composition Berkley Group Project
Professor Miller
October 22nd, 2024
It is our belief that the human mind can be shaped and transformed to adapt to different situations. The idea of the mind being shaped and transformed can be an interesting topic. As Nicholas Carr says in the article Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Carr quotes James Olds, a professor of neuroscience saying “The brain has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions” (Carr 4). We find Olds to be right in this idea because the human mind has done this before time and time again. For example on page 4, Carr points out a scenario where this once occurred using the mechanical clock saying, “When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating ‘like clockwork’” and “in deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our sense and started obeying the clock”. Our brain are able to be changed due to it having a trait called neural plasticity. This helped us to adapt to our environment and become more efficient no matter where we are or what situation we find ourselves in.