Being Unplugged Research Paper

When I first received this assignment of being unplugged from all technology for three hours I completely freaked out! I really had no idea what to expect as I’m always constantly using technology to keep myself entertained. The big question that came to my mind was like what am I going to do for three whole hours. Since a lot of my homework took technology to complete I made sure to schedule this experiment on the least busiest day that I had. I started the experiment at eight am on February 1 because I was done with everything important that day. I spent the three hours doing multiple different things in order to keep myself busy and engaged with the experiment. I really discovered from the experiment how important and valuable technology has
I made sure that I was by my self because I can’t concentrate on reading without being alone. After a while I started to stare at my phone like I really want to check it and see if anyone has texted me. In order to make sure that I didn’t accidently or turned my phone on I made sure it was completely dead so I couldn’t turn it on even if I wanted too. At this point I thought being unplugged from technology wasn’t really that hard as the only thing that was really tempting was my phone. The reason I believe cell phones might be one of the most important technological tools is because a cellphone gives you the ability to keep in touch with your family, work, and check for any important
I thought about Nicolas Carr’s research of “Juggler’s Brain” and how multitasking and distractions such as technology can lead to a lot of information to not be stored in the long term memory. I believe that because I had no distractions such as technology and had full attention on the reading I was able to retain more information in my