If you’re really interested in developing your mind, you should turn off your computer and your cellphone devices – and start thinking. While the devices you are on now or using for instance the internet distracts you from the learning process that you gain wastes from all ages, also every bit of data you use breaks your train of thought, the potential risks or benefits of using technology is to be intelligent on your own and to think on your own. To start off with, the internet distracts you and also so does social media or apps, you may think you could be getting all the information from websites you look up on but really you’re not gaining the information you need to succeed. For example “Google is a search engine that most of the world uses to look up facts and other websites but the more we skim over words and pictures, the more ads Google gives us to show and not only that it gets more money.” (“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”) Not only has it got us away from learning probability but with social life, family, and working. …show more content…
Any e-mail, text message received or sent is one percent of your life you could be missing out on. Not only does it affect us with common sense but with plans you set up with in the future. The conflict with this argument is that parts of technology now days helps humans get around from city to city using a “gps” which is a digital map to locate you where you’re going. The other opposing side disagrees with not being able to use devices because even though when we need something to come into place as in an emergency we can use that to help us find useful