... “How the Internet has changed life “ Artificial Intelligence is starting to take over the world. Lately, a huge majority of people would choose the internet to research information then through a book. Internet first went public in 1989, but it wasn’t until many years later that it became widely known or used. In the early nineties, the internet was in a completely different place from now. It was a text only web browser, which gave way to graphical web browsers with supported images that is used in today’s society. As more sites started to develop, an ecommerce took hold. By 2000, the internet truly went “Main-Stream”. With 20 to 30 years of being born, the internet has made major changes worldwide. In the beginning, many people suspected that the internet was an insignificant tool due to that few people had access to it. It now plays an essential role in day-to-day life. There are many different reasons why a person would need access to the internet. Some may use it for business purposes like advertising and marketing their business. While others may use the internet for a way of communication by socializing with family and friends worldwide through social media. As the internet has been revolving through the modern age, many question “Is the internet affecting my brain?” Well everything we do affects our brain. The bigger question is “Are the affects good or bad? “. The...
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...constantly being introduced. We are in an age where we have any answer to any question at our fingertips, we are all connected through social media, and we live in a 'selfie' culture. However, is all of this technology good for us and moving us forward, or is it making us regress as a species? The question made me curious, so I dove into research. The first step in my research was the most obvious, I typed in 'Does technology decrease intelligence?' into Google. The first article that popped up was from Medical Daily' and after looking at the sources and the page, I decided it was a pretty credible read. The article makes many good points, an interesting one being that technology literally affects us physically. Through studies done, they found technology lowered our levels of gray matter. Working out where to go ourselves creates mental maps and creates more stimuli in the brain, though we give that up when using GPS. That same concept also applies to learning-instead of learning on our own anymore, we look up answers online. It's been proven that when we self teach and find our answers through work we create more brain stimuli, and we retain the information better. Contemporary technology has weakened our capacity for deep processing, which can be gained by reading extended texts, though we are able to filter and read only what we think necessary online. Technology has given us the ability to find an answer in seconds, but not retain the knowledge. It has also decreased our attention...
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...What the Heck has Internet Done to Our Brains? Section I: Introduction and Context Imagine going back in time and staying there permanently. Out of all the things that will be missed, there is no doubt that the one thing would be technology. The Shallows: What Internet is Doing to Our Brains is nonfiction book written by Nicholas Carr who asserts and cautions the effects that internet has on everyone to this day and even more so in the future. People nowadays can communicate with people all around the world using many different types of communications such as social networking sites, cell phones, emails, etc. Carr brings in many different scientific research as well as a couple of personal experiences to show the great change in technology and the internet. The author chose to write The Shallows from an epiphany he had realized, “It (his brain) was hungry. It was demanding to be fed by the net feed...I wanted to check email, click links, do some googling. I wanted to be connected” (Carr 16). The way that technology has changed and developed the internet has made Carr want to stress the fact that although technology is very useful, it can be very harmful to peoples’ brain in a way that it affects a person’s deeper level of thinking. Section II:The Author’s Background Nicholas Carr is a columnist, member of the Encyclopedia Britannica's editorial board of advisors, as well as an executive editor. Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics which have made his books...
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...Introduction Technology has been increasing its use in our day to day lives for years now. The amount of technology that kids are using and are exposed to can easily be concluded as being a great deal more than previous generations. Does this increase in technological availability affect us, though? This question is at the heart of Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In a study done in 2011 by the American Psychological Association, they found that “adults over the age of 55 who had had a black and white television set growing up had a higher likelihood of dreaming in black and white. However, younger users who had always had a color television . . . were much more likely to dream in Technicolor.” This is just one example of how the change of and increased use of technology can alter the way our minds think and function. Carr poses his thoughts and opinions about the effects technology is having on our brains, while...
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...Right now, the piece of technology you are using to read this essay has probably helped you tremendously in more ways than one. You use it to look things up, write papers, research, maybe even look at social media. But it may not be the best thing for you in the long run. In an article called Is Google Making Us Stupid by Nicholas Carr, published in The Atlantic online magazine, talks about the ways google and other forms of technology have hurt the way people think. It tells of historical events, current worldwide companies, and the authors own views to show those negative aspects of technology. Technology has been sold to the world as a tool that is brilliant and amazing, and something that can helps so many people. While that may be true, it doesn’t tell the whole story on what technology can do to a person. Reliance on new technology, such as computers and the internet, have been, and are, adversely affecting the way people think, write, and read which ultimately influences how humans are living. As technology is advancing and changing, so is the way that people are reading. People are no longer going to libraries, but instead using the internet to “read”. Nicholas Carr says...
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...Using google too often can cause internet addiction which will affect to people concentration, and deep thinking become hard abilities. People seek for easy ways to avoid sadness, stress, and fatigue like drinking alcohol can be one of the approaches to avoid life issues. Likewise, surfing internet and browsing to web pages are simple way to get information. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicolas Carr argues that internet is negatively changing the way our mind works, in that, we would abuse the internet and not let our brains figure things out without the need of searching on Google. Throughout his article Carr gave examples and different people opinions on the same topic, which made the article even more credible and successful. This was very a good way to get his points across to the non-believes. Carr achievement with the use of rhetorical appeal and serious tone to obtain the reader attention and persuade them that in today’s society, the internet causes many problems. The article’s tittle brings a tough question to mind of readers. By using a movie scene and arguments embedded with imagery and metaphor “someone or something that tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory.” (226). He also provides research on how other writers had agreed with him on the subject to help support his strategies of logos. He states that even as a writer his mind struggle to keep focus on a book. One example that he spoke about the research...
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...and even TV’s that can connect to the internet. Americans love it and some feel they can’t live without it. Is this a healthy relationship? According to Statistic Brain, 99% of American families have at least one TV in the home. 65% of American families have three or more TV’s in the home. (Statistic) For most homes that is a TV in every room. It’s nice to be able to watch movies with your family on a comfortable couch. We all have our favorite shows that we like to watch at a specific time on a specific date every week and that’s ok. However, is there such a thing as watching too much TV? The average American watches more than four hours of TV each day. In a 65 year life that’s nine years of just watching TV. Nine years is a long time to waste on TV. We as Americans always complain about not having enough time in a day. If we really made the effort to turn the TV off and leave it off, I bet we would all get a lot more done in the day. Back in the day the types of TV shows that used to play were funny and the whole family could watch them. More kid friendly shows were played back in the day. Now days what appeals to America is sex and drama. It seems to be on almost every channel. Cursing, swearing and other things contradict what we try to teach children in school. Watching so much television can affect a child’s health. The American Academy of Pediatrics actually recommend that children under two years old watch no television at all because the first...
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...article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, was written to address the uprising concern surrounding advancing technology and the effects it has on the public. Nicholas Carr provides an understanding on how technology is affecting the way human’s process information. In the article, Carr unlocks our mind to the negative affects advancing technology is having on the human brain. Nicholas Carr provides research from a range of reliable specialists on how the internet is modifying the way our brain translates information. Technology is engraved into our everyday routines and most children nowadays are being exposed to technology at younger ages. Exposure at younger ages enables the mind to adapt to technology quicker than adult individuals...
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...possible because people are unable to fully divert their brains and focus on one thing when other digital input is distracting them. The evidence from Digital Nation shows that people are not as good at multi-tasking than they think and that they lose focus of what they must be paying attention too. I know that in my personal experiences, when I am typing a paper, I rarely type the whole thing without checking my phone, email, or social media sites. This does cause me to lose my thoughts, and like the students in Digital Nation, my paragraphs become very choppy. Carr finds that due to digital media, people are no longer searching for deeper understandings of information, but just finding the surface of information because it is easier and quicker. Another example is how people tend to skim articles online, rather than reading it in its entirety. I do agree that the Millennials are impatient due to the fact that they have grown up in a world that requires instant gratification, however, I also think that they are not completely ignorant if they can utilize the digital media to learn in depth and over time. I think that the culture that we live in also affects Millennials. Our culture is so focused on faster technologies and want instant gratification that it becomes the norm for society. The negative consequences could be that certain information does not exist if it doesn’t load quick enough or it its not found on Google, or that our culture will stop digging in depth of issues...
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...The Story of My Search Ever since I found out that my grandpa, great grandma, and other relatives had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, I've been curious of what it really is. I knew it wasn't good news, so I was kind of scared of what was happening, being so young. I thought of the few basic questions average people don't tend to know the answers to: How is Alzheimer's caused? What changes go through the brain with people who have it? Is it preventable? The only knowledge I really had about the disease was that you lose your memory to where you don't know familiar people's names, older people get it, and that it can be spread down from your parents or through your family. I was nervous for my parents, siblings, and I because it has ran down both sides of my family, so...
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...air temperature with altitude, or of water temperature with depth," claims Google. In an easier way to understand it, an inversion is air pollution. Air pollution is dangerous and deadly, the damage depends on any asthma related problems. Not just asthma, also breathing problems. Air pollution is air with thick and deadly things like oil in it. It is caused by factory like buildings that liberate lethal chemicals that combine with the air. There are many reasons why it is caused, what it does, and some solutions. Bad air, also known as air pollution can hurt people. But terrible air pollution can kill people. Salt Lake City is one of those places that has terrible air pollution. The...
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...Page 1 “The deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.”(Google." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.) Abortion is a very touchy subject, no one likes to to talk about but it occurs all the time. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on how the see the topic of Abortion. There is Pro-Choice and Pro-Life, how it affects everyone on religious beliefs and cultural values. No one can talk about this topic without it turning into an argument. Either people think it’s right or it’s wrong, everyone has a very different opinion on it. Communication on abortion does not occur very often. I chose the topic on abortion for various reasons, to inform everyone on the huge negative side of it, and a possible positive side of it. I was raised catholic, Pro-Life. I do not believe in any form of abortion. Although when I was six years old my mom was pregnant with my sister Isabel. For the first couple months of my mother's pregnancy was “normal”. Later during my mom’s pregnancy they found some complications, she had a cleft lip, palate, hands and feet. During other ultra-sounds they found...
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...Introduction: Have you ever heard of Port Arthur? If you Google it, most results will be of a town in Australia, but it was once a prison specializing in psychological punishment. I first heard of this place when I was researching Australia for a social studies project. I had to write a travel itinerary, listing eight places I’d visit (if I were to travel to Australia) and give a little background information on each place. In reading about Port Arthur, I found that many of their prisoners developed mental illnesses and had to be moved to the neighboring asylum. The website implied that the prisoners were driven insane by the “Silent System” used to punish bad behavior. This system essentially consisted of isolating the prisoner by putting...
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...sleeping, sometimes hundreds of times a night, depriving the brain of oxygen. This narrative is all-too familiar for many teenagers and adults. Almost everyone has had to pull an all-nighter at least once in their life...
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...GOOGLE, INC. Google Company History Meaning of Google There are many meanings to the name Google. Google originally comes from the word googol, which was coined by a guy name Milton Sirotta. Googol refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. A googol is considered to be a very large number. There isn’t a googol of anything in the universe. Not stars, not dust particles, not atoms. Google’s use of the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the massive, endless amounts of information available on the web. Before Google’s Time Back in the mid-1990s, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Bin were not too fond of each other when they first met at Stanford University as graduate students in computer science in 1995. Every conversation Larry and Sergey had it was always a debate about every topic that was discussed. Eventually all their strong views and different viewpoints would find some kind of common ground in a distinctive approach to solving one of computing’s biggest challenges; recovering information from an immense set of data. Towards the end of January in 1996, Larry and Sergey began a search engine by the name of BackRub. It was named BackRub because of its unique ability to analyze the “back links” pointing to different websites. A year later, their approach to link analysis was getting BackRub a growing reputation among those who had seen it. The word about the website had spread around campus faster than they expected. ...
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