Gary Small Summary

1. Harris uses the example of his nephew to begin his article because he wants to give an emotional example that the reader can easily relate to and feel emotion from. The reader strongly gets a sense of pathos from Harris, and can feel his disappointment along with him. His nephew is only two years old, so it is astonishing that he witnessed it himself and can verify that it is a true story. This example ties into Harris’s point that the young generations don’t know what it is like to not have technology around so they don’t think twice about what they are doing. They can’t imagine doing anything without the technology, and this can cause lasting effects in their lives to come.

2. UCLA’s Gary Small does an experiment where he is testing to

Harris and Greenfield make many claims about how technology if negatively affecting children and their growth out of maturity and into real life. One of these is that the brain adapts to the things it experiences. Hours of internet use causes the brain to change itself to work best for internet use and not in the reality of the world. Also, if children are spending so much time on the internet, they are not going outside and getting sun, exercise, and excitement from the natural things around them. All of these things are important to the growth of a child. Children are also becoming unable to deeply think about their ideas and how to express them clearly. In line with that, they expect instant answers and quick rewards, therefore losing the ability to wait and be

I feel like these claims appear to be very true amongst my life and the rest of the young population. Technology has taken away the personal touch from everyday things. Typing every emotion we have, whether it’s in a text or in and essay for school, has taken away some ability to connect with what we are saying and think deeper about it. Also, talking with someone through text is completely different from face to face. It takes a lot more effort to have a discussion in real life than to just type cute, short expressions and end it with a smiley face hoping that the person reading it understands what tone of voice you would use to say it because that can affect the meaning of a sentence greatly.

5. Some positive impacts that I feel like technology has had on my generations life is the easy access to ample amount of updates, specific information of fairly every topic imaginable. I feel like it promotes learning about anything and everything. In encyclopedias, information may be dated and the things that you are looking for may not even be in there. Also, encyclopedia’s take up a lot of room in order to have even a fraction of the information online. Another good use of technology is typing up essays so that teachers can easily read them and turning them in online to check for