Dumbest Generation Essay

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Dumbest Generation?

We all know technology has taken over us without even noticing it. Although technology has changed throughout these years, it has had its good perks in many reasons such as making our lives easier with just one single click. However, because of this, it has lacked us from actually doing some research or actually trying to educate ourselves mentally and physically. In the sources below, we will notice how technology has had somewhat of an affect on why we might be the ¨dumbest generation¨ as questioned. Each source is being said in the authors own perspective and what they think lead to us being the dumbest generation.

First off all, I will go ahead and analyze sources to support the claim of

¨dumbest generation?¨ Source 1 ¨Dumbest Generation ¨, by Mark Bauerlein, talks about how he thinks people 30 and under may be the dumbest generation of them all. Although he uses the word ¨dumb¨, he doesn't mean that they can't comprehend, by using this term he means that as read on the source ¨As the survey research shows, knowledge and skills haven’t kept pace, and the intellectual habits that complement them are slipping¨. With this said, Baurelin believes that technology may have something to do with this, because times are not the same as they were before. As said in Source 1, ¨ The mental equipment of the young falls short of their media, money, e-gadgets, and career plans¨. In other words. In other words, this generations would rather keep up with the trends such as social media and such rather than try and focus more in education like the older generation. As seen, Laurelin may have a point in why we might be the dumbest generation.

Furthermore, I will go ahead and talk about Source 4 ¨ Is Google Making Us Stupid?, by Nicholas Carr.

This source gives us a good look on why google might be the blame for all of this. Google has grown immensely these past years, it has helped us a lot, what I mean a lot. When we need to find the answer for something we use google, when we need a definition for something we use google, we can even search up the weather on google, its that easy now. As quoted from the source ¨ Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.¨ As we can see little by little we are slowly getting in the habit of having everything done for us. Next thing you know the internet will be caring fo us. Although it's good that we have google to help us when we are stuck in something and can't figure out something, we can't always rely on it. The more we use the internet, we tend to use our brain less making it difficult for us to process things on our own. Again, another claim can be found to prove that we might be the dumbest generation yet.

Lastly, I will use source 8 a cartoon called ¨Shelved¨, by Roz Chast. No words need to be used to understand the meaning behind this picture. As seen a person is either in a library or bookroom sitting down alone with a computer obviously doing a research of some sort. How ironic isn't it ? Everyone is so blinded in finding the easy way out instead of actually using the knowledge they have to do some reading

or research the old school way. Another point proven on why we might be the dumbest generation.

In conclusion, the main factor of all this is obviously technology. It has changed very rapidly through all these years, changing the way we understand and comprehend things. We try to make our lives easier but just finding the easy way out, which is finding all the answers on the internet such as ¨google¨ as seen on source 4. Baurelin was right as he stated in source 1 technology may be the reason why we lack on education. This is why we might be the dumbest generation after all.