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Technology and the Society
According to Joseph Firth et al., the Internet has changed our brains by producing both sustained and acute alterations within specific parts of the cognition, and it may reflect changes within the brain, thereby positively affecting social interactions, memory processes, and attention capacities (Firth et al. 2019). The Internet has increased an individual’s capacity to think as frequent internet users have twice as many actions within their short-term memories, a unique ability that can enable individuals to interact with and understand the world around them.
According to Carr, the Internet has changed the way people read, retain, and process information. When the Internet came, everybody focused on the contents it provided. When the print press came, individuals began reading, and they ended up removing themselves from the social world hence becoming individualistic (Klein 2020). It exposed individuals to a particular way of thinking and seeing more fragmented and individualized things, as many people became alienated from others. Individuals reprogrammed their brains into being good readers hence losing visual acuity.
According to Tristan Harris, human downgrading is the climatic change of culture through technology, destroying man free will, wrecking democracy, and generating social anomie (Harris 2019). To fix the problem, individuals must understand that computers change their minds and lives for the worse.
The film is a source of aspirational vision. He claims that individuals are not making good use of the social media by pointing out the amount of time individuals spend on their phones and the activities they are engaged in. therefore, in stepping into the right direction, he congratulates Google and Apple for rolling out various features to help individuals limit on-screen addictions (Harris 2019).
Works Cited
Ezra Klein. How Technology Changes our Brains. Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking. (2020)
Firth, Joseph, et al. “The “online brain”: how the Internet may be changing our cognition.” World Psychiatry 18.2 (2019): 119-129.
Tristan Harris. A path to Humane Technology- With Tristan Harris. (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oFcGfQ8bWM