Technology: Is Us Highly Decaying Our Brain?

The internet is a powerful medium. It is the main source for most human’s entertainment, news, and even education. The internet is a world of opportunities; it has opened people ears and eyes to others divergence. However, with the internet comes the huge social media platform where people do outrageous things like take pictures of their food and put it online or make stupid videos to entertain us for six seconds. Is the internet slowly decaying our brain? Author, Steven Pinker does not believe so; he argues that technology is “the only thing that will keep us smart.” It is not the internet fault for human’s stupidity. However, author Nicolas Carr asserts that “our intelligence will flatten into artificial intelligence” (44) ultimately disagreeing with Pinker’s statement.
This conflicts with Pinker’s argument that “technology is the only thing keeping us smart” because he states uses his examples to express the negative aspect of technology than the positive. When Carr references Friedrich Nietzsche, with failing vision he started to use a typewriter to write. “But the machine had a subtler effect on his work” (43), he uses this situation to effectively show the reader pros and cons of new technology. Carr conveys how Nietzsche has a new way of communicating however; his writing will never be the same. By doing so Carr effectively expresses how he would disagree with Pinker’s statement because as new technologies begin to progress and makes improvements there will always be a negative