I think that modern inventions make people lazy beacuse they make everything easier. The car‚ for instance‚ allows people to travel long distances without having any physical strain on their body. The television is something that people sit in front of for hours on end until they have made an imprint of their butt on their couch and 7 hours a day of channel 35 is second nature. The fact that people can now watch TV shows in high definition and record‚ pause‚ rewind‚ or fast forward through their
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In the article‚ Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is making us less attentive and overall less intelligent‚ Which in his opinion is making us "dumber". Carr’s article refers to a growing body of scientific work to prove his point. A study conducted at Cornell University revealed that while some areas such as visual-spatial intelligence are increased by internet use‚ "new weaknesses in higher-order cognitive processes‚" such as "abstract vocabulary‚ mindfulness‚ reflection‚ inductive problem
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Technological progress has made us lazy. Technological progress is a continuous process‚ which plays a very important role in our daily lives. However‚ some people believe that this progress has made us lazy‚ saying we rely on machines too much. For me‚ the progress‚ while not making us lazy‚ makes human beings more active both physically and mentally. First of all‚ machines or high technology don’t help people do less work but help them complete tasks more quickly. With washing machines‚ vacuum
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ENG 120 I03FY February 23‚ 2010 Is the internet bad for us ? In the old days‚ a paper research used to take up to several days‚ when only libraries and encyclopedias had the right and trustful information. A visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art involved finding the address first‚ and that took as well quite some time. In our days all this information is just a click away. The Internet‚ with the help of web pages‚ such as Google Search and Google Maps‚ are the solution
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“Closeness Is Not Related to Distance” is an advertising slogan‚ seen at the Blackberry Store at the Hartsfield International Airport. From a subjective viewpoint‚ has the Internet and other technologies added to our sense of connectedness and well being in our families and communities? The Internet was lauded as the technology that was going to connect the world together with the ability to communicate and work with people of like minds who may live around the corner or across the world. When
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watching and playing on computers to creating and finding fun in creation. Whereas in the article “Is The Internet Making Us Stupid?” published on June 16‚ 2008 in New York Times Nicholas Carr’s tells use of internet leads to lose ability for long reading and fall in time span spend on the material. I am not totally agree with K.J Dell’ Antonia and Nicholas Carr’s ideas. I think computer is making us smarter because we can exchange our ideas through one click only all over the globe within few seconds
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ESSAY PORTFOLIO Is the Internet making us less intelligent? Essay Plan In my essay I wish to argue that the Internet is not making us less intelligent‚ but that it has provided a whole new dimension to the way we interact‚ communicate‚ think‚ create‚ share and exist. The accessibility of the Internet provides a magnitude of knowledge and information in real time that could have never have been accessed
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To communicate and make new friends indirectly‚ letters used to be the only methods in bygone day and many people are lazy to do so. With the advent of advanced technology on the Internet in recent year‚ the practice of writing a letter seems to take a leap a faith‚ however. The snowballing email-writer and the prevalence of MSN users are the obvious evidences of this drastic change. While we are enjoying the fruit of the technology‚ may we try to stop and think for a while; is it a favor or a trap
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ENG 110 Is Google Making Us Stupid? “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is an article written by Nicholas Carr‚ which was published in The Atlantic in July 2008. Throughout his article‚ Carr discusses how people are beginning to rely on the internet as their primary source of information. He also states that the internet is negatively affecting the way we read and write‚ and is also having an effect on the way we process information. With the help of his fellow writers and personal research‚ he makes
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out almost more so than the head line “Americans Are LAZY”. In it was a picture referring to a class room of Korean children who were made to study on average 16hrs a day. The writer of stated how foreign countries valued education so much more than us as a whole‚ and how the first generation children of immigrants had a roughly 40% greater chance of not completing school because of the adopting in culture. I said to myself “Are Americans lazy?” I felt this couldn’t be true when as a collective whole
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