Smart Technology Making Us Dumber Research Paper

With the ever growing advancements in technology, many have seen this as a detriment to society, while others realize the potential smart technology gives. A question has been raised asking whether smart technology has made us “dumb” or not. Nicholas Carr and Andrew Keen agree with each other that smart technology is making us dumber. However, I do not agree with Nicholas Carr and Andrew Keen from the broadcast of intelligence squared debate that smart technology is making us dumber. I for one, believe that smart technology is actually making us smarter.

I personally believe that it depends on the person using the smart technology and how they are using it to their advantage. Without smart technology, we wouldn’t have many things that we have today. For example, smart technology can play a big role in architecture, architects could be trying to research which is the best material to build with and check if there are any good deals as

well. They could simply research it on the internet to their own advantage. Another example could be traveling, I think that it is always handy to keep a physical copy of a map, however, a gps may come more in handy because of the voice that directs you where to go. If a bad situation happens, like there is no service where the GPS had taken you, that is why you have a physical copy of the map.
Like I said earlier, it really depends on who uses the smart technology and if you use it to your advantage or if you abuse it. Smart technology, I would say is a blessing.
I believe that smart technology makes us smarter by having a search engine there for us at anytime.

Sure, autocorrect doesn’t help me memorize how to spell words the exact way all the time. However, if I am ever curious about something I can easily whip out my smart phone and search it up. There have also been times where I have even whipped out my phone to check something out that caught my eye. However, instead of putting my smart technology down after understanding, I felt more intrigued by it and I wanted to find out more information. So I kept researching and researching until I learned a lot more. I believe that if you use smart technology for the right reasons, then it will help you grow as an individual and you would learn much more than you ever thought you could. Even simple things like staying on task or staying organized. If you ever need help or tips on staying on task or getting organized, you can easily search the web. If you are ever running out of motivation to do work or study, you can search up motivational

quotes.
However, I do see the disadvantages of smart technology. I see parents at restaurants pacifying their annoying kids by handing them a smart device. And of course the first thing that the kids always go for, are the games. I would understand it if the games were educational. However, all they play is Candy Crush and RPG games. I understand it is fun, but what happened to handing them play-doh, or bringing along car toys, barbie dolls, or even coloring books? There are plenty of other things to keep kids distracted instead of smart technology. But I guess parents just reach for the smart tech because it’s easy to carry around because they always have it with them. And if the kids get bored, they can always download new games. However, let’s change something up. Maybe people will start to appreciate smart technology more instead of claiming that it makes us dumb if we actually do something useful with it. How about more educational games for kids, make it fun even, with a competition between the parents and the child? Of course the media will never be able to get rid of games, however, more options on educational games would be way better. Even though it is not good to be spending all your time on smart technology and children should be active and explore what mother nature has set for us. Sometimes, parents have no time because of their jobs, and school and their smart technology is what sets them apart. Smart technology can always be addicting. Once you start you can’t stop. But let’s have the “once you start you can’t stop” policy working on research. I personally learn a lot when things get very interesting on the internet. No, I am not talking about The Kardashians and Bruce Jenner, I am talking about studying and researching wise. Without smart technology, I wouldn’t be able to study more efficiently, even though there are at times where I have stopped studying for a few minutes or hours because I got distracted. However, studying with smart technology helps me get motivated and organized because I can easily type up my notes from a Sociology seminar.