The Internet War With Our Brains With the constant changes of technology in the world today it is apparent the human brain is headed down a path of destruction. Before the year of 2000‚ society spent their time in a library gathering information to gain knowledge; now that time is spent on the Internet through personal cell phones‚ google‚ and facebook. I‚ in fact have fallen into this category of not realizing simply how much the Internet has grown
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English 1130.021 February 19th‚ 2014 Word count: 1094 The Internet and Its Destruction of Our Brain For billions of people across the globe‚ the Internet is a crucial part of their everyday lives whether for business or social purposes. The amount of Google searches per day has skyrocketed over the last 15 years. In 1998‚ the average number of searches was 9‚800. Today‚ there are over 5.9 trillion per day (Comscore). The Google search engine is only two decades old (Comscore)‚ but has significantly
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that the internet causes addiction‚ depression‚ and psychological discombobulation‚ they resounded‚“‘What’s next? Microwave abuse and Chapstick addiction’” (Dokoupil). Truthfully‚ people find the evidence impossible to fathom. The Internet allows us to instantly access the business world‚ keep in touch with our friends‚ and make our work easier. It would seem that the benefits would far outweigh any problems. Serious problems‚ however‚ can occur to Internet users when they use the Internet far too
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world of technology where information flourishes. The internet has grown rapidly together with the technology and has paced the speed of exchange in information. Questions that arouse in our head used to remain unanswered until we actually took the energy‚ time‚ and effort to flip through the pages of the heavy books in the library. But today‚ questions are answered instantly with a few clicks on the internet search engine such as Google. The internet is prepared to give out the answers to everything
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The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains Nicholas Carr Over the last two decades the Internet has developed into instant source of information. Libraries and museums are slowing becoming useless for research and development‚ because of how easy and simplistic it is to discover information with just a couple mouse clicks away. Now in modern libraries people do not just go there for books‚ but they are there for the wifi hotspots as well. Tapping of the keys is the most predominant
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What the Internet is doing to our brains: Is Google Making Us Stupid? Date Submitted: Tuesday September 14th‚ 2010 Prepared for: Ms. Mark Prepared by: Sachin Sahota Not many people ask the question “What is Google?” Google itself has changed millions on millions of people’s lives on how they think and interact with other citizens in their daily activities. Gone are the days of going to a public library to research a topic for an essay but now come the days where users are not sure to trust
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using a couple of keywords. Ah yes‚ Maisie W. Putting my phone away I turn my gaze back to the drama before me. What is so strange about this picture? Ask anyone from “Generation Y” and they might shrug. The miracle of instant information at our fingertips that our parents and grandparents only fantasized about is now common place. From Instagram‚ to selfies‚ to live streaming The Walking Dead‚ 21st
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At first glance of this book‚ “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains‚” I started to get the overall impression that the author‚ Nicholas Carr‚ was totally opposed to idea of technology. As a lover of technology myself‚ I dreaded reading this book because I thought that it was going to be a negative interpretation of technology. And while this book doesn’t exactly shed the most positive light on that subject‚ I’ve started to understand the overall views of Mr. Carr and identify with
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Nicholas Carr‚ author of The Glass Cage: Automation and Us (2014) and his previous book‚ The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2011) writes about technology and the impact it has upon our culture and argues for the motion that smart technology is making humans dumb. Andrew Keen is an internet entrepreneur and author of three technology related books‚ one of them being The Internet Is Not the Answer (2015)‚ also argues for the motion. Nicholas Carr states that the use of smart technology
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TOPIC: IS THE EFFECT OF INTERNET ON OUR LIVES BENEFICIAL? Almost everybody owns a computer today. Everyone has access to a computer. Of all these personal computers in the world right now‚ the majority of them are connected to the Internet. Internet can be seen as a bad thing if you become too dependent on it for your daily life and your daily learning. The internet leads to the destruction of the viewers mind‚ it has also been seen as an educational tool. There are many different types of sites
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