This week’s blog I chose to do it on Nicholas Carr chapter 9 of the book What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains The Shallows. As I was reading this chapter, there were many things that I had agreed with what Carr had to say about how technology affects our internal memory. “Rather than memorize information, we now store it digitally and just remember what we stored. (181)” I agree with this because I do this myself. Back then in high school, I would either remember what I need to do for the day in my head or write down a to-do-list in my planner to remind me. Now I would just type down everything I need to do for the day on a sticky note in my phone. Whenever I forget to do something, I would just take out my phone to look at my list without even trying to remember what I was supposed to do with my own memory. Sometimes I feel that my memory has become more and more forgetful over time because I can’t seem to remember what I need to do without looking at my phone. This shows how technology has a negative affect against my memory. Though my phone helps me remember what I need to do, I wouldn’t be able to remember it myself.
“The Net quickly came to be seen as a replacement for, rather than just a supplement to, personal memory. Today, people routinely talk about artificial memory as though it’s indistinguishable from biological memory. (180)” I believe that this is true because not only has the Net replaced our personal memory, but technology has as well. In my opinion, the reason why the Net and technology has made humans to begin losing their concentration, memory, attention, imagination, ideas, and etc is because technology is making everything for humans much more simple. It allows humans to do less work which leads to laziness and many other factors. Because the Net has become so useful and important to humans, we begin to depend on it. Where once we begin depending on it, there’s no turning back. The Net and technology makes our lives so much easier, which is why many people use it.