How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds Summary

Consumers can’t get them out of our minds, what makes you think they can live without smartphones? In “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds,” Nicholas Carr argued how smartphones give an unprecedented hold over our attention that affects our judgment and thinking.“You can take it everywhere as if it was your “trusty companion” referred to how a single gadget usefulness provides daily functions in a convenient way. Nicholas Carr used evidence, description, and statistics/facts in order to strengthen his argument by how smartphones hijack our minds.

Carr used evidence to backup his argument in order to give the audience a sense of knowledge and how smartphones affect us. Carr indicated how smartphones could have such control over our perception

Carr revealed how smartphones delude people with just the mere presence of them when he stated: “Smartphones have become so entangled with our existence that, even when we’re not peering or pawning at them, they tug at our attention.” He used descriptive words such as entangled and pawning to emphasize that our smartphones draw our attention away even when you’re not using it.“Your new phone, like your old one will become your constant companion and trusty factotum- your teacher, secretary, confessor, guru. The two of you will be inseparable,” Carr included the word “factotum” to depict how your smartphone does all kinds of tasks and acts as if it was a real person or your friend for life. “Imagine combining a mailbox, a newspaper, a TV, a radio, a photo album, a public library and a boisterous party attended by everyone you know, and then compressing them all into a single, small, radiant object,” Carr illustrated how your smartphone is literally an all in one in a small handy form. In short, Carr used sophisticated diction and detail to depict his point but he however used other devices to gain a sense of reliance to the audience. Carr used statistics/facts to prove and strengthen to make his argument cogent.