Technology: Is Google Making USupid?

“The Internet contains the world’s best writing, images, and ideas.” (Is Google making us stupid?) The internet is where we get our most valuable information, we can get that information very easily and fast. Technology is referring to social media and search engines. Though others might say that technology risks our healt h and distracts us, technology is beneficial to both the mind and the body. The reason technology is beneficial is because, it gives people support, technology transforms people’s lives, and it develops your brain. To begin, technology and social media gives people support and it also brings people together, it can bring people together who are thousands of miles apart. One example is “based on a representative survey
An example of this is, “By considering a wide range of information, we can arrive at more creative and informed solutions.” (Is Google Making Us Stupid?) This is explaining that whenever you use technology to look something up, it expands and lets us consider all of the information that you might not find in a library or books. Another example is “81 percent of experts polled by the Pew Internet Research Project say the opportunities outweigh the distractions.” (Is Google Making Us Stupid?) This means that there was a poll and 81 percent of experts agreed that technology is more beneficial than not. To sum up, technology can transform people by giving them access to more information and experts agree that technology is
An example of that is, “Imaging studies show the brains of Internet users become more efficient at finding information. And players of some video games develop better visual acuity.” (Attached to Technology and Paying a Price). This shows that people who use the internet or play certain video games, can develop skills that come from those activates like, better visual acuity, or the ability to look through large amounts of information and pick out the important parts. Some people may say that the internet can create a lot of distractions, it can also have positive effects and can help people in many different ways. In summary, the internet, and technology can help develop your brain and can give you certain skills. To conclude, the potential benefits of technology are, it supports people and gives people social support, it can transform people’s lives for the better, and it develops parts of your brain that can only be developed through the usage of technology. Technology overall is very beneficial to the everyday person, it can give and image of the white house without going there, it can provide very interesting books, technology is very useful and very valuable, we benefit immensely from