NO TIME TO THINK
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David levy “No Time to think” portrays him as an accomplished writer with a lot of experience and knowledge in his writings/work through the extensive research that he has invested in his work. Levy explores the vast impacts of technological advancement in our today’s society. In this article levy maintains that technological devices has affected our capacity to think intuitively, capacity to tap our vast realm of consciousness and reflections. The writer targets the entire society but mostly scholars, educator and students through his entire work. The abstract work clearly introduces the disadvantages of technological devices/advancement and how it has affected our thinking and reflections. Levy expects scholars, students and educators to take time and reflect on their use of technology and their effects.
The world has arrived...to me it depicts the arrival of a new age, stage or cycle of life that incorporates and implements new technology and devices that would minimize the levels of thinking and work. The introduction of this article demonstrates how levy took a lot of time to think when doing research for this writing. This is clearly depicted by him mentioning great scholars and innovators such as Barbara Mcclintock as people who did not rely on the technological devices/advancements to accomplish their great research/work but took time to think, reflect and tap their vast realm of consciousness. The introduction briefly lays out his plan and purpose of writing this essay as it points out how technology has affected our general academia standards and how our society value creative thinking rather than intuitive and contemplative thinking.
After reading the introduction I think that David levy is right to some point and I should take some time to think intuitively and tap my realm of conscious so as to make this sense the rest of the essay. The writer wants me to know use of short-term goals and technology has less access to wisdom, reflective and intuitive thinking can provide us. Most importantly David Levy wants us to respect intuitive thinking and contemplative thinking. However, it is difficult to figure out when to incorporate more time to thinking yet we have devices that can easily do that for us and we humans are considered to be generally lazy in life.
Levy provides a detailed information on Bush work “As we may think” simply because Bush gave an elaborate explanation on how technology can affect our reflection and thinking as it would create information overload problem/library problem. Bush in his work said “information overload was a threat and must be stored and consulted first” and “truly significant attainments were more likely to become lost in the mass of inconsequential” to my understanding Bush was referring to the technological advancements we are experiencing now. Moreover, the reason why the writer points out Joseph Pipers work is that he was a philosopher, technocrat and an engineer with vast knowledge in the field of technology. In his passage the writer states that Piper was worried at the rate at which workers’ were being replaced by “cogs of machine” and also his statement “ total work /total claim upon the whole human nature” in that it would consume entire leisure time of people.
Levy compares and contrasts between Bush and Piper works as they give elaborate description of how technology is going to affect our lives now and in the future more so, our time to think.. To them leisure is a form of stillness and relaxation. For instance, Bush was concerned with the loss of time for reflection (p.239) while piper on the other hand was concerned at the rate which technology was advancing (p.242).Some of the terms that I had to look up for were: information overload which refers to the availability of a lot of information that cannot be used at the same time, information environmentalism that refers to the creation of an environment that educate individuals on the impact of technology and general information and lastly inconsequential refers to the impact of something is less significant at the end of it all . These terms has enabled me to understand clearly David levy essay as it has given me an in-depth understanding of the impact of technology. David levy style of writing is great as it’s depicts a working of a great philosopher and great researcher