Artifact 3

I don’t know what to think about this audio. What does our future hold if the Internet as it interrupts our brains ability to process short term memory into long term memory? Will our brains adapt somehow? They will adapt, but will I be losing something that I value but don’t realize it. I like to be able to focus and have deep thoughts/ reflection about me and the people around me. I may be able to hold on to this but what about my children. The Internet will be a larger part of their life than it in my life.  I still remember a time when I did not use the Internet at all, but for my children’s whole life they will have access to the Internet. I don’t think I will be able to stop their use. The Internet and the technology that comes with it is the wave of the future. I would be hindering my children’s ability if I did not allow it in their life. If I don’t allow it in my life I will be hindering my ability to protect them from the dangers that come with the Internet. I guess it comes down to finding the healthy balance of being connected vs. disconnected. Will my children have trouble with processing short term memory into long term memory? How will teaching change? Are teachers finding it more difficult to get their student to reflect and really think critically about something?

I am not a person that is very techy. I know just enough about the Internet to use it and am smart enough to figure out what I don’t know. I never have the newest technology, it always takes me a year or so to adapt (mainly because I just don’t have the money to keep up or don’t value having the newest technology). I just started texting just over a year ago. I check my facebook page maybe once a month.  I strongly dislike checking my email and I have a job and teachers that require me to check my email every day : !   I’m a person that likes being disconnected. Being available 24/7 is not what I want. I like being around people but not computers as much. Now after saying all this, I am open to new technology and I don’t want to be left behind because like I said earlier it is the wave of the future. I am limiting myself if I reject the Internet and what it can do for me.

Nickolas Carr’s findings really disturb me a little. Maybe just like other past inventions that had negative attributes, but still prevailed so the Internet will overcome their negative attributes somehow.  The whole world does not have the Internet and they survive. What will happen if for some reason we get disconnected? Carr almost made it sound like being distracted and the Internet were addicting. I also wonder what the Internet is doing to our health. Obesity is on the rise is that because people are at the keyboard instead of outside playing games? Being connected to me is almost like being sedentary because when people are not on the Internet they are usually actively doing something else.  Maybe not physical exercise but more moving than non-moving.