"The price we pay to assume technology 's power is alienation. The toll can be particularly with our intellectual technologies. The tools of the mind amplify, and, in turn, numb the most intimate, the most human, of our natural capacities -- those for reason, perception, memory, emotion." (Carr 221)
Ultimately, I agree with what Carr author of "The Shallows" has stated in this quote. Societies, including the one I live in today, have individuals that use technology as a "life support" every minute of the day when they wake until they decide to go to sleep. Technology, since the beginning of human history, was designed to be a tool, not some form of deity that humans cannot live without. Humans in these modern times have to be disciplined int o being self-reliant individuals. Though, technological advancement is a necessary role in society 's life to progress towards modernization, our primary goal is to preserve ones intellect independently with proper ethics and a sense of modern
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There is no more intellectual skepticism! People do not want to find their long lost answers that could make an enormous impact on their life later in the future. Not everything is factual, which can lead misinterpretation to many fragile and complicated situations that have or are occurring now at this time. Even well known Broadcasting networks that lay out sources on the Internet consist of so many opinions that do not have a well educated study behind the statements they give. We live in a very dangerous time right now with so many Militant Islamic groups taking over countries and forcing native people to live or die under their terrifying oppression. To see or hear about great nations crumbling to the ground would be usually be labeled as a horror for those who live under stable conditions, but if they are blind from the devastating situations that are occurring thanks to these so-called