Sherry Turkle Making USupid Analysis

Don’t you hate it when people spend too much time on their phones? In this generation, technology has gone through a lot of advancements and a lot of people are striving to own an electronical device, because they think that it makes them feel like they have every bit of knowledge on their fingertips. According to Sherry Turkle, who is the author of “The Flight From Conversation”, she is informing people that teenagers are mostly using their phones to communicate with each other, and that is causing them to have a lack of social skills. People are bad in face-to-face conversations, and they struggle a lot throughout their lives. Nicholas Carr wrote in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, that the Internet is an immeasurably powerful computing

One article states that, “They, typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would ‘bounce’ out to another site.” (Carr, 4) and this quote explains how teenagers are being held back from education, and how they are not interested in enhancing their abilities to become more knowledgeable. “When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating ‘like clockwork’. Today, in the new age of software, we have come to think of them as operating ‘like computers’ (Carr, 7) the author is trying to say that people are dependent on technology, they are misleading the use of technology and changing its understanding where people;s brains are beginning to function just like computers. In the same article Nicholas Carr claims that, “In Google’s world, the world we enter when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation” (11) Google is a place where people’s creativity and imagination have come to a stop, and stopped most of the students brains and the ability to recognize the bad from the