English 1301

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One of the key things that has happened with the advent of the internet is the information overload. While in the past, people used to go to library and actually research about something, a trend that is dying these days and due to that, the thinking ability of the people and to actually research something is on the decline. When the information is easily available, what it means is that the people do not have go and actually process things and find an opinion. Instead all this process and information is eased out and provided through Google thus limiting the processing power of a person. The other thing that the internet and plethora of search engines are doing to is that they are not allowing people to make sure that they are creating rich mental connections. The idea behind the mental connection is to make sure that a person is able to read something for a prolonged time period without having this need to make sure that they completely disengage. Internet has allowed us to find easy information but in exchange, it has made sure that we are not fully immersed in the deep reading connection that is integral to reading these days.

Then comes the fact that how there is change in the thinking ability of the person these days. What is happening is that internet comes up with enough set of distractions and interruptions to it clutters the human mind and it is one of the prime reasons that people are not able to comprehend and think about the information in an organized manner these days. Then comes the quick fixes for the information and with that, there is a lot of instances that the attention span of the people that are working these days is on the lower side which is one of the prime issues that people tend to face these days. The other major change that the usage of the computer has brought is that how it made the work as a whole much more complicated. What it means is that the effort is needed to be carried out to make sure that the perspective is developed in terms of the way work processes are needed to be created in the manner that makes it easier for all the stakeholders to be involved in it at the given point of time. The other problem that is witnessed when there is a case of the extensive usage of the computer is the fact that how they tend to completely let go their basics. What it means that most of the times, even if they are supposed to carry out simple arithmetic operations, they are using calculators or other word processing options. Again, it all boils down to the fact that how there is inability among people these days when it comes to making sure that they are able to carry out and perform some of the extensive tasks that are needed when it comes to the way long term planning is supposed to be carried out. The labor and the hard work are something that is not known to this generation and instead the actual computational skills are now being replaced by the processing and word skills. The other perspective that has to be kept in mind is that how “real” these skills are and what sort of benefit the society would be actually gaining out of it at the given point of time. In the hindsight, both the search engines and computers have played a major role when it comes to decline in the human processing skills and how they adopt to information.

Works Cited

Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google making us stupid?." Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education 107.2 (2008): 89-94.

Turkle, Sherry. "How computers change the way we think." Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace. Routledge, 2017. 3-7.