Source G: A Political Cartoon Analysis

Throughout history people have been developing ways to make day to day tasks easier and overall improve quality of life. Every generation had its great inventions but the twenty first century brought forth many amazing breakthroughs involving communication and the accessing of all kinds of information. Even though the twenty first century has brought along many new and impressive technological advancements that would allow the everyday individual to expand their intellectual horizons, it actually ends up doing these millennials more harm than good.

These technological advancements are often very overwhelming and major sources of distraction. For example, Source G is a political cartoon created by Paul Noth that portrays a man in a lab coat at a desktop with a tab open that says “The Internet wants to destroy your productivity” with a button underneath labeled “always allow” This cartoon helps to highlight how the exponential freedom the internet provides can easily lead us to get distracted and stray away from
The fact that we basically have so much information at our fingertips we lose the need to really retain a lot of information because if there is anything we need to know it's available at the click of a mouse. Bauerlein points out how even though it appears as if millennials have the upper hand because of all this access to technology that the previous generation did not have they actually don’t. Also Bauerlein highlights the steady decrease in intellectual capabilities as the technological improvements