The brain adapts to everyday activities such as caring for a newborn or living in a city for the first time; technology is just another adjustment. Whether the brain changes for the better or worse because of technology is a controversial topic of discussion. In his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr inserts his opinion on the debate, arguing that technology changes the brain for the worse because it causes a shortened attention span and decreases deep thinking skills. In contrast, in “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, Clive Thompson argues that because technology enables collaboration and increased knowledge, it welcomes a positive influence on humanity. Although technology may alter the …show more content…
They were allowed out of their comfort zone to learn more about their craft and become more innovative because of technology. Access to the Internet provides the chance to become more skillful without fully concentrating on finding specific information in long readings. The dispute over whether technology has assisted humanity is still heavily debated. Carr believes that because of how we use the Internet, we “power browse” to “avoid reading in the traditional sense” resulting in the loss of deep thinking (Carr 3). He expresses that for this reason, technology is destroying society’s “capacity for concentration and contemplation” (Carr 2). His concerns revolving around the modifications technology may have on concentration are understandable, but technology is not the only aspect of everyday life that has the potential to change the way we think. Thompson explains how not just one thing is “rewiring” people’s brains, stating, “Almost everything rewires it. What brain you had before you read this