How the Internet Affects Our Brain
We live in a 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 almost immediately. It has become easier for us to access to the more specific information that we need. Data for our research paper, study report of a scientific experiment, reviews, conclusion to a passage, theme of a novel, and all sorts of information flow in the internet ready for us to take the advantage of its concisely arranged information. However, has our brain advanced along with the new method of accepting information through the internet? Or, has it actually deteriorated from the less thinking and analyzing?
All kinds of information is out there in the internet. There is the raw information which, like the encyclopedia, contains extensive length of information that includes all the significant details as well as the less significant ones. Then there is the processed kind of information where only the main points are extracted out and summarized from the large context. Answers and solutions are like the processed kind of information that lead us directly to the brief conclusion and they are easily accessed through the internet. We no longer have to spend hours reading a thousand page novel and then thinking, trying to figure out what the theme of the story is, whether or not if there is an implied message, or what the author is trying to tell us. All we need to do now is to go to Sparknotes webpage and type in the title of the novel. Summary of the plot is concise yet it contains all the major events. There are information on main ideas that
All kinds of information is out there in the internet. There is the raw information which, like the encyclopedia, contains extensive length of information that includes all the significant details as well as the less significant ones. Then there is the processed kind of information where only the main points are extracted out and summarized from the large context. Answers and solutions are like the processed kind of information that lead us directly to the brief conclusion and they are easily accessed through the internet. We no longer have to spend hours reading a thousand page novel and then thinking, trying to figure out what the theme of the story is, whether or not if there is an implied message, or what the author is trying to tell us. All we need to do now is to go to Sparknotes webpage and type in the title of the novel. Summary of the plot is concise yet it contains all the major events. There are information on main ideas that