Does technology make us more stupid?
Bill Keller, the executive editor of the New York Times, wrote an article on The Twitter Trap on the 18th of this month, in which he criticized the development of modern technology and made us more and more stupid. He also posted a status on his Twitter: Twitter made you stupid, spray me! This state was naturally besieged by everyone, and some even speculated that Keller was hacked.Keller said that he does not want to sweep everyone's happiness, but he hopes that we can think about whether every innovation will come with some price? Sometimes this price is even part of our own. He believes that today we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud, so we have saved a lot of brainpower to pursue other aspects of satisfaction, such as stealing food in FarmVille (like Happy Farm), or going to watch the reality show "Ladies" The real life, peeping into the lives of the upper class. Keller himself often worries that those new technologies that transcend us are eroding our essence step by step: we reflect on our ability to reflect, our curiosity about the unremitting exploration of nature, our inner compassion and a deeper sense of society than politics...
Before the sixteenth century, people could remember a lot of information. But now there are such talents, such as those who can repeat a book, but instead, be treated as a different kind. Then we ushered in the Facebook era of Mark Zuckerberg, we are accustomed to publications, and our memory is declining. But we still have a lot of memory potential, and Joshua Fore has confirmed it for us. After a year of training, he became a world-famous memory master, and most people locked this potential at home and no longer developed.
Not only that, the GPS navigation system blurs our grasp of the city streets and slowly obliterates our sense of direction; the emergence of typing and the Internet makes our neglecting practice calligraphy and writing become unsightly; Twitter and YouTube Various updates have kept our attention shifting; the memory that was left with it has been handed over to Google and other search engines. This is also reasonable, with such a powerful search ability, how many people will bother to remember?
The people who had a lot of words about Keller’s remarks chose to write on a website other than Twitter and argued against Keller. Let's take a look at how the author of the Gizmodo website, Mathew Honan, refuted Keller's point of view.
[Dear Bill: You are wrong and stupid. - Matthew Henan]
Matthew Henan believes that there is nothing wrong with new technologies and networks. The question now is how to discover their value. If you do some superficial things online, you can only get some life-threatening experience. If you communicate deeper with people online, you can get some wise thoughts, build long-term relationships with people, and gradually improve your overall lifestyle.
And the development of modern technology has changed the way we think about communication. The way our brains process information and the ways we get along with others change with new media, new communication tools, and new languages. If we no longer write letters, but we have gained more powerful communication skills, what have we lost? If we invented the machine that could handle the problems we couldn't solve in our lifetime, what did we lose?
In the new era, we are constantly harassed by information and data: all kinds of advertisements, television, internet, radio, and newspapers are sending us information. So for us, having a super memory is not enough to master so much information. We need to exercise and have the ability to find useful resources from the explosive information. One can quickly decide what is important. What is the sense of insensitivity? Like Benjamin Franklin, people who can remember all the knowledge that human beings have created are not without them now, but now the knowledge is updated so fast, you want to remember all the knowledge, no matter how good your memory is. It is no good. So we are not stupid, we just become more specialized in a certain field.
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