Spencer Sherck

10-27-23

Project 2 

English Comp.

Modern technology has taken over the world as we know it. Well not fully yet but we are pretty damn close considering how far we have come in the last 20 years. I think Sherry Turkle and Sam Anderson give us a really good insight to this and show us how they feel about this topic. (Now explain what theirs essays talk about in general terms. Little detail)

Anderson states, “Which brings me, finally, to the next generation of attenders, the so-called “net-gen” or “digital natives,” kids who’ve grown up with the Internet and other time-slicing technologies. There’s been lots of hand-wringing about all the skills they might lack, mainly the ability to concentrate on a complex task from beginning to end, but surely they can already do things their elders can’t like conduct 34 conversations simultaneously across six different media, or pay attention to switching between attentional targets in a way that’s been considered impossible. More than any other organ, the brain is designed to change based on experience, a feature called neuroplasticity.” In this he is saying that the next generation of kids will grow up with technology all around them and will never have a point in their life without it. This can and will totally change their brain structure. These kids wont have the writing skills too because the web can just do it for them at this point. 

Turkle says, “But these conversations require time and space, and we say we’re too busy. Distracted at our dinner tables and living rooms, business meetings, and on our streets, we find traces of a new “silent spring”- a term Rachel Carson coined when we were ready to see that with technological change had come an assault on technology is implicated in an assault on empathy.” People are so distracted and brainwashed over their phones and its so bad they say they are “too busy”. I can see this in our generation right now when i hangout with people then all of a sudden everyone is just on their phone and sitting there in silence.