Jonah Lehrer's Essay: The Fight For Technology

Cassidy Stucky
English Composition 101
Professor Graber
November 2, 2014 The Fight for Technology Technology is something that changes everyone, might be good, might be bad but what are you going to let technology do to you? Albert Einstein says, “It has become that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” What does Einstein mean when he is talking about this? To some technology is something that is good, something that helps you learn, helps you secede in what you want to do. But technology can hurt you, have you ever look up to much information. Jonah Lehrer says in her article “Our Cluttered
Minds” that technology has always been screwed up. On the contrary Maggie Jackson says the world is crumbling because of technology in “The Erosion of Attention.” The
As I have said before, Candy Crush, is just brain activity. Brain activity being a pointless thing to occupy your thoughts; while brain use is doing something that helps you learn and stay active. Brain use being the Mickey
Mouse Club House game that helps you learn colors, or shapes, terms or animals.
“When theres a crawl on the TV, people remember ten percent less of what the news anchor says. What’s being lost is the ability to problem solve deeply; to go beyond the surface of the data, and to make sense. To create knowledge out of information takes a certain kind of focus and problem solving you don 't get in sound bites”
(Jackson). Jackson is saying that you are more likely to learn something by reading it,

than by hearing it. You have to have to ability to problem solve and focus on what someone is saying to be able to learn from hearing. Now that you can go out and buy the CD of a book instead of having to read it would be a lazy way of using technology to benefit you. If you read the book you are more likely to understand what is happening. I remember as a child my mother would always read my books, and I could never fully understand the storyline until the day I learned to read the books myself. But with
But scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas” (Richtel). What Richtel is saying is that you can’t exercise and expect to learn something. Technology has advanced is such a way that we can now use our phones, or iPads, while we are exercising to be multitasking. But along with being able to use these while exercising it isn 't helping us any to be doing two things at once with working out and being on your phone. If you are at the gym emailing your office coworkers while running you are not getting your true work out in because you are focused on you email instead of your workout.
In all technology had its benefits, and its doubts. There are many benefits to technology that we don’t even think of, that we can have it around us all the time in an easy solution. Technology can also be extremely bad and unhelpful, you can abuse it

and end up hurting people. Technology is all what you want it to be, all you believe