Technological Advancement: Effect on Intelligence

Technological Advancement number on IntelligenceThe invention of Gutenbergs press was met with claims that the printing press, if not controlled, would go across to chaos and the dismemberment of European intellectual life (Shirky 1). Some great deal become anxious with new changes that throw out the restrictions that once was the norm. This, however, happens everyplace again and again byout our history. Every increase in freedom to fix or consume media, brings forecast of impending chaos and intellectual collapse. Our ripe applied science is changing the way our brains work. We no longer need to dream up anything our tech does that for us. There seems to be a form of amnesia bear upon us the internet has changed the way we function.The way our brains sire changed, from the give of the Web, is debated everyplace and has yielded very different outcomes. Gary broken, a neuroscientist, professor, and author studied the effect that network searching had on the brain. Twe nty-four participants were studied with half having no profits search experience, the brains of the other half that regularly used the internet showed an pinnacle in stimulation of the regions associated with complex reasoning and decision- make (qtd in Munro 4). The participants who were net profit novices had similar results in their frontal lobes after five geezerhood. Using technologies has influenced our brains, Sm solely argues, the brain shifts towards and is energized by, new technological skills. This sounds good, however, as we rely to a greater extent and more on our tech we become intellectually lazy (Munro, 2). Shirky states that the Net, in fact, restores adaptation and writing as central activities in our culture (3). The Net has greatly assisted people with their research, having search results appear tricely instead of days of going through the library. Subsequently, not denotation as we used to has had a price. Carr sh ars his contend, Now my concentration often starts to drift . . . I get fidgety, lapse the thread, begin looking for something else to do (1). The concentration we once had has changed, our brains forever altered.The Internet impresss users from one place to another, making it difficult to concentrate on the chore of simply reading. Carr admits, I cant read War and Peace any longer . . . even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it (2). There is a new form of reading that has become more prominent in users of the Web, this skimming activity shows how our brains have been changed. A study was carried out by scientists at the University College London to see how our minds have changed when it comes to reading and believeing. During the five eld of study two sites collected data on users behavior during visits to their sites, this produced results show users bounced around the Net rarely re-visiting pages they previously had been to. It is thought that this style of reading promoted by the Net . . . may be weakening our competency for the conformation of deep reading . . . (Wolf qtd in Carr 2) that once was customary. The neural circuitry of our brains has been studied when it comes to those readers that have an alphabet compared to those with ideograms as their written language, it revealed the brain of the ideogram learner was vastly different. The sections that govern cognitive functions as memory and the interpretation of visual and audile stimuli (Carr 3) had the circuitry interlaced differently. Our concentration is now a struggle, what allow the Internet propel us toward next?We were propelled into an age of technologies. These were supposed to save us snip and labor. Munros opinion is that modern marvels are less labour-savers than brain-savers (1). The early technologies were meant to help us with the mundane daily task, simple machinematic washing machines, dishwashers, drive-through car washes, precisely with these, it given an exc ess of free time, the time we squandered with frivolous mind numb activities. Todays advancements in applied science have introduced us into an endless source of instant gratification. Take our cell phones, for example, they are now responsible for holding all our important information (i.e. numbers, addresses, meaningful dates) we no longer need to opine anything for ourselves. The connection is constant, Google can connect us to a source-any source-within a element of a second and with that why do we need to remember anything? Those things that were once etched into our brains, like our phone numbers, is now outsourced to our technology. Robert Fitzgerald, associate dean at the University of Canberra says, There is indeed a dumb side to technology (qtd in Munro 2). He ponders if the searches his children complete yield something supportive or if its a hit-and-miss. Is Google making us stupid? asked Carr (2). The answer is not so simple, but if not making us stupid, as such, Go ogle seems to be making us intellectually lazy. Perhaps, our technologies testament bring forth great positive changes or maybe leave us with digital amnesia (Harris 1).The Google return shines hold of so many of us, reaching our brains, inflicting its digital amnesia upon us (Harris 1). In 2011, an experiment conducted at Columbia and Harvard Universities brought theories that technology is reshaping the way we think and learn. Within our daily lives, some of us have come to heavily depend on Google to provide us with aid. From spell check to auto fill the decision we have made to use these electronic assist has affected our capacity to learn and execute daily tasks. No longer do we need to use our own memory, Google does it quicker and better, we get the answers faster and shade sooner. The information is recent but our comprehension of that information is lost. The abilities we traditionally gained through repetition and rote memorization are now impaired. This brain beaut ify that occurs makes it difficult for an answer to be given, we must get sticker to soulfulness because who needs to remember that? This dependency on Google is potentially harmful, allowing the tech to take over our minds, our work, making us inept to handle problems without it. The inflictions that The Google Effect has had on us needs to be turned around, a middle grunge found, to ensure the future of technology and our analytical ability and intellectual capacity (2) remains intactOur tech will carry on to grow and prosper, and continue to alter our minds, the way our brains think and learn. In the future, we will look back and find this tech to be distorted and the new tech will be more intuitive, more integrated, more intelligent (Munro 4). We can that wait and see if our learning ultimately might reveal itself in the smarts of those same technologies, (5). If we no longer dive deeper than the surface of information what will we be missing out on? What will we pass over and never come to know of? Carr describes a scene from Stanley Kubricks 2001 A lay Odyssey in his article Is Google devising Us Stupid? where the artificial intelligence is being undoed, pleading for his life, feeling his memory slipping away, the human Dave continues to disconnect his memory circuits without a second thought (1). Showing a arctic artificial side that technology could be inflicting on us, turning the tables and slip our roles. This new evolutionary journey will be full of struggle for we still have so far to go. This tech revolution has exactly begun and I can only hope we come out of it with our minds resourceful of our human emotion and not unfeeling as though we are an artificial intelligence. The world around us changes and so must we but lets hold on to our humanity, use our God-given abilities to expand our minds and lets not take the easier way, use our brains allowing it to grow and produce great works of art, literature, and advancements in all fiel d of study. Dont let the technology do it all by itself.Works CitedNicholas Carr. Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brainsHarris, LTC Corey W. The Google paradox is technology making us smarter? The Free Library. 2016 American Society of Military Comptrollers 03 Mar. 2017 https//www.thefreelibrary.com/The+%22Google%22+paradox%3a+is+technology+making+us+smarter%3f-a0457561687Munro, Peter. Is technology eating our brains? Sunday Age, The (Melbourne), 10341021, Feb 08, 2009Shirky, Clay. 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