Life is full of endless amounts of information that will either cause people to peak interest or get lazy and ignore it. Information spreads almost instantaneous these days, and it is constantly getting faster. I find myself a craver of knowledge, one of the many people who peak their interest and curiosity in discovering more about the world around them. Whether any of the extra things I learn is vital to my life or not, my brain loves the very act of finding interesting facts or discovering new things. There has not been a time yet where discovering something new did not interest me in the slightest. I see my brain as a new computer in that it constantly wants more and more information. Not only does it want more of it, but my brain also wants it faster and faster. My brain has always been quick in calculating or interpreting something. From when I was younger, those math minute or quick quiz activities were always enjoyable to me. Many years later, I have not gotten slower in how I want to receive my information, but faster. …show more content…
I am a tech freak, and new gadgets or tools from the tech world excite me way more than any other person. I would most definitely categorize me in the group of geeks and nerds. Going through calculus and physics problems are the best kinds of problems to endure, even if they are super hard to get to the answer. My brain enjoys a challenge in learning as the satisfaction of finally reaching the goal or finding the answer is all worth it. I was born in what seems to be the perfect time for me. The world has just come into the world of ultra fast technology and ways to spread information, and I sometimes wonder if I have researched and learned too much. However, you just seem to not be able to actually ever reach the state of knowing too much. There is always much more us humans can learn whether it is from your computer or inside your
We as humans tend to have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. We look for knowledge about everybody and everything that surrounds us in our day-to-day life. Sadly though, we must accept that in the grand scheme of life we (as a society) tend to put pleasure above our quest for knowledge. The pursuit of knowledge tends to take time and energy, two things we call invaluable, and it also shows us things that might depress us. Contrastingly, ignorance takes no time and energy.
The internet is our conduit for accessing a wide variety of information. In his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr discusses how the use of the internet affects our thought process in being unable to focus on books or longer pieces of writing. The author feels that “someone, or something, has been tinkering with [his] brain” over the past few years (Carr 731). While he was easily able to delve into books and longer articles, Carr noticed a change in his research techniques after starting to use the internet. He found that his “concentration often [started] to drift after two or three pages” and it was a struggle to go back to the text (Carr 732). His assertion is that the neural circuits in his brain have changed as a result of surfing endlessly on the internet doing research. He supports this statement by explaining how his fellow writers have had similar experiences in being unable to maintain their concentrations. In analyzing Carr’s argument, I disagree that the internet is slowly degrading our capacity for deep reading and thinking, thereby making us dumber. The Web and Google, indeed, are making us smarter by allowing us access to information through a rapid exchange of ideas and promoting the creativity and individualization of learning.
technology like Google, which pushes us to do it in easier ways in the present time. Accordingly, tasks like reading books to find information and to gain knowledge, is now seen to be near impossible because of the privilege that high technology is offering. Nicholas also shares a theory that, when we start doing new things, our brain changes and molds into a new shape where we can only portray those actions and tasks. For example, if we only use websites to find information for a project and never actually read, our brain will not be able to jump right back and go back to the roots of reading books and catalogs to obtain all that information. Originally, finding information and gaining knowledge by searching was seen to be amazing and satisfying, but now is seen to be much too easy to be proud of and shows laziness in the way we live now in society. Many signs show that Google is making us
Of all the themes displayed in A Tale of Two Cities, one of the most prominent and important is the duality of man. This theme is incorporated largely through the actions of the main characters and is often conveyed through the use of metaphor. As the nature of man is widely important to the theme, is also greatly important to the books purpose, to portray the consequences of inequality. Dickens reason for writing A Tale of Two Cities was to symbolize the discrimination present in England during his life through the circumstances of revolutionary France. These metaphors are also central to the themes expressed in the novel. The duality of man is asserted by the polar opposites present in many different aspects of the narrative. While Lucie and Madame Defarge represent unchanging good and evil, the transformation of Sydney Carton from morally inferior to moral perfection also stresses the theme of man’s duality. In A Tale of Two Cities, metaphor greatly contributes to the theme of the duality of man, by using numerous characters and conditions to symbolize the contradictory nature of man, as well as the moral teaching of book, through symbolic representations of Victorian England.
The world around has grown to become dependent on gadgets that will ultimately determine our future generations. The society has become immune to adjusting technologies into our everyday life. Are we too reliant on the new technologies that it slowly affects our cognitive skills and perceptive? As a writer, Nicholas Carr, once stated, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” it corresponds to people looking up resources online faster, and effectively rather than learning the knowledge. “My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.” (Carr, 737). Carr is trying to aware that the usage of internet, technology, is becoming a resource that is a lot easier to gather information now
Plato once said, “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” Some believe that the desire for knowledge and the emotions that arise from it can be dangerous. This assumption is incorrect because possessing vast amounts of knowledge causes many positive impacts everywhere. Knowledge is not dangerous because it causes advancements in the lives of others, which leads to a more harmonious society. Too much knowledge is not dangerous because, when given to the right individuals, it can save lives.
I am an undocumented student at UC Davis. When I am asked a simple question such as, "describe your personal experiences", I ask myself: Where do I begin?
From a young age, I was very curious. Curiosity caused my mind to see everything from a different perspective than most. I saw what could be improved and how I could improve. For example, when it came to editing movies, I was always able to see what could how it could have been better or I questioned how they had created it. My curiosity led me to try many different activities throughout high school, such as film camps, stage managing for plays, yearbook, and even creating videos for Rochester High School’s awards day. Finally, my junior year, I decided it was time I made films of my own for competitions. I wanted to have something that I could call my own. When it came to the two films I did for contests, I was there throughout the whole process.
In Praise of Not Knowing is an argumentative piece which argues that today’s easily accessible sources of information is doing an injustice for people today who wants to learn new information. Kreider mentions multiple personal anecdotes, from music, to movie plots, to science articles. All arguing if it is truly effective to simply look up the information rather than going through the journey to find out the information yourself. Questioning whether people today are truly learning that “what we cannot find inflames the imagination.”(Kreider 203).
Though this may be true, it is so incredibly important to provide ourselves with knowledge. Knowledge shows us how intelligent we can become if we use it correctly. It shows that intelligence “encompasses” more than just reasoning skills, it emphasizes the importance of understanding knowledge and using it towards certain tasks and assignments. “Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed” (“Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman). But knowledge and intelligence also use the skills of memory and attention, which in learning, are tools that need use.
Knowledge is the key to more information that can really stand you out from the rest. This can cause problems for people who crave the unknown or want more than what is given for self-benefit. Books and the internet can only do so much for us to increase technology or even increase work ethics, but in the bad side knowledge can lead up to using the information for terror or etc. The amount of information in this world is a double-edged knife for having it's good and bad to oneself and society and an example of this happening is in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.
Due to the accessibility of information on the Internet, when people know facts are easily accessible on the Internet, they are not motivated to remember it. Zhai Yun Tan, in her article “How has Google Affected the Way Students Learn?”, references a 2011 study by Science showing that if people know they can get information later, they tend to remember where to find it, not what they are trying to find. Science’s research reaffirm how people tend to remember where information can be found, despite trying to remember the fact itself. The science behind this phenomenon is explained in more detail by John Lehrer. In his article, “Is Google Ruining Your Memory?”, Lehrer explains that human memory is more constrained than people would like, so if one knows that a fact is easily accessible online, the brain will not waste precious space on remembering the fact, but save the space for less accessible information. The brain unconsciously decides what information is helpful to know and is worth taking up space in the human memory bank, and gets rid of information considered easily reached. Lehrer also emphasizes how the brain only remembers facts that may be of help in the near future, but forgets facts that seem unimportant or irrelevant. Thus, the brain keeps a relevant store of information for use, but any knowledge deemed not helpful is discarded.
Perhaps it is not too much "information," but an explosion of "noninformation" (Wurman 1989) lacking relevance, quality, and usefulness. What is needed is better judgment of the quality, accuracy, and reliability of what is received(Kinnaman 1994). According to John Seeley Brown, people may perceive overload because the information they receive does not fit into current mental models for understanding the world (Tetzeli 1994). The problem of information overload thus has both technological and human aspects. The solution is also two pronged: both technological--create better technological tools and make better use of them--and human--revise mental models and sharpen the capacity for critical reflection and analysis.
According to Geert Lovink in his novel Networks Without a Cause, “data flows [have piled] up until the system breaks down”, enabling readers to deal with an excessive amounts of information, resulting in a breakdown when information is unavailable (24). Because information on the Web is so readily available, we expect to find answers, and we expect to find those answers in a timely manner. With the advent of technological devices that are meant to increase knowledge, individuals become too dependent on them, allowing memory capacity become dependent on “architectures of information systems” (25). People’s ability to memorize and retain information and weakened as individual ’s rely more and more on the Internet to provide information.
My brain is constantly telling me that I need to spend a lot more time researching and finding out everything I can about the subject at hand. But could this trait possibly be a flaw in me? What if I am supposed to look up information to write a research paper about how after school programs help children stay out of trouble, but my brain is telling me to research a more interesting topic to me like the current rise and history of gang members in Chicago? Then it becomes a problem that I have to learn how to keep control over, but luckily that is just a minor flaw. Being inquiring also has perks too, not only can I know a lot of information about the current topic I may be studying but I also know and research information that others may deem as “useless” information. But in my opinion I think all information I inquire is important and will be put to use in some kind of