Juggler's Brain Analysis
The Good Side of the Internet on Society
The world is living in an era where the Internet has become an integral part of their everyday life. Everything is at their fingertips through the Internet: school, work, business, personal, and so forth; society has made its usage almost mandatory. It has made everything easier and people today they cannot even imagine how their lives would be without this genre of technologies. But, it cannot expect that something as useful as the Internet will not have adverse effects in people. However, in this technological era where the world is open to more than a person want with just a touch of a button, the Internet has been more helpful than harmful to our society.
The Internet was created with a sole purpose: …show more content…
Nevertheless, since buying clothes, ordering medication, paying bills, ordering pizza for dinner and so forth, the Internet has made living much easier, fulfilling many daily activities without leaving home and saving people a ton of time. In the article “The Juggler’s Brain” the author Nicholas Carr claims that studies that have shown that there’s more usages of the Internet, the brain becomes more expert in focus and analyze information because “As we practice browsing, surfing, scanning, and multitasking, our plastic brains may well become more facile at those task” (Carr, 2011 140). The more people use the Internet they accomplish a daily routine of activities, to make easy to fulfil their tasks. As the author says, “Research shows that certain cognitive skills are strengthened, sometimes substantially, by our use of computers and the Net” (Carr, 2011139), that is, instead to overload of the brain, the more time a person spends navigating through the Net, the more knowledge they acquired. Carr also claims that the Internet’s use “Exercise the brain the way solving crossword puzzles does” (Carr, 2011 128). As far as society goes they all know, crossword puzzles have been considered for years a good exercise for brains and never a waste of …show more content…
Neil Postman, the author of the article “The Judgment of Thamus”, argues, “New things require new words” (Postman, 2013 204). The use the same words, but over the internet has become, these different meanings because it has redefined the command of language. The author argues that “A new technology does not add or subtracts anything. It changes everything” (Postman, 2013 213), and regardless if people/society is ready or not, the Internet has given a different sense to humans, different ways of communication, and different ways of learning. As the author says, “One significant change generates a total change” (Postman, 2013 213), therefore, is highly important that a person, a society pay attention to all these normal changes. He compares a technologist with an ecological change, arguing that if the caterpillars are removed from, its habitat, the environment will be different without them. In the same way, if caterpillars are added to an environment that never has had any, of course a change will be produced. (Postman, 2013 213). In other words, when the technology was introduced to society, a change was produced. In the same way, if the technology would be removed from society, the world would not be the same again. Can people imagine how their lives would be without technology? Would be very boring that having
The world is living in an era where the Internet has become an integral part of their everyday life. Everything is at their fingertips through the Internet: school, work, business, personal, and so forth; society has made its usage almost mandatory. It has made everything easier and people today they cannot even imagine how their lives would be without this genre of technologies. But, it cannot expect that something as useful as the Internet will not have adverse effects in people. However, in this technological era where the world is open to more than a person want with just a touch of a button, the Internet has been more helpful than harmful to our society.
The Internet was created with a sole purpose: …show more content…
Nevertheless, since buying clothes, ordering medication, paying bills, ordering pizza for dinner and so forth, the Internet has made living much easier, fulfilling many daily activities without leaving home and saving people a ton of time. In the article “The Juggler’s Brain” the author Nicholas Carr claims that studies that have shown that there’s more usages of the Internet, the brain becomes more expert in focus and analyze information because “As we practice browsing, surfing, scanning, and multitasking, our plastic brains may well become more facile at those task” (Carr, 2011 140). The more people use the Internet they accomplish a daily routine of activities, to make easy to fulfil their tasks. As the author says, “Research shows that certain cognitive skills are strengthened, sometimes substantially, by our use of computers and the Net” (Carr, 2011139), that is, instead to overload of the brain, the more time a person spends navigating through the Net, the more knowledge they acquired. Carr also claims that the Internet’s use “Exercise the brain the way solving crossword puzzles does” (Carr, 2011 128). As far as society goes they all know, crossword puzzles have been considered for years a good exercise for brains and never a waste of …show more content…
Neil Postman, the author of the article “The Judgment of Thamus”, argues, “New things require new words” (Postman, 2013 204). The use the same words, but over the internet has become, these different meanings because it has redefined the command of language. The author argues that “A new technology does not add or subtracts anything. It changes everything” (Postman, 2013 213), and regardless if people/society is ready or not, the Internet has given a different sense to humans, different ways of communication, and different ways of learning. As the author says, “One significant change generates a total change” (Postman, 2013 213), therefore, is highly important that a person, a society pay attention to all these normal changes. He compares a technologist with an ecological change, arguing that if the caterpillars are removed from, its habitat, the environment will be different without them. In the same way, if caterpillars are added to an environment that never has had any, of course a change will be produced. (Postman, 2013 213). In other words, when the technology was introduced to society, a change was produced. In the same way, if the technology would be removed from society, the world would not be the same again. Can people imagine how their lives would be without technology? Would be very boring that having