Thoughts about Technology

During this article, there are many different things that caught my eye. It was a really interesting piece of literature, because it talks about if technology affects people in a negative way by making them multitaskers who can't seem to retain and focus on information. Some scientists and researchers however say, that the brain is always changing and adapting, and by always doing something with the technology if helps people find more efficient information.

One test suggests that the negative affects, out way the positive affects in different way. The study done by Mr. Ophir, the subjects of the experiment were separated into two groups, multitaskers, and non-multitaskers. He proceeded to show them red rectangles, and then they showed them another pictures of more red rectangles and asked them if any of them switched positions, but there was a twist, they added random blue ones into the equation, but they specifically told them to ignore them. After this was conducted they realized that a lot of the mulitaskers did a worse job at trying to find if any were switched then the non-multitaskers. They stated that this was because they couldn't filter out the blue ones because it was irrelevant information. They also said they weren't as good as juggling problems.

To me this shows how people who are always on their electronic devices, have a lot harder time paying attention and really focusing on one thing. Because they are always doing like ten things at once, they just barely remember or figure out one thing, because they have their focus spread out between a lot of things. As for example in this story, they talk about Mr. Campbell and his family. Mr. Campbell himself seems addicted to technology. He even missed an email for a agreement for about a million dollar deal, probably because he was too busy multitasking and not paying full attention to his email, so he missed it. To me that's seems like a problem because, that's a huge deal, and if he would of never seen that email that would of been devastating to his life. Also his son is like him, always on technology and his school grades are dropping. That's a huge problem because he can't focus on his homework or school work because he is always thinking about face book or video games.

Even after all this technology talk of making you a multitasker, it also seems to put a toll on family life if your that addicted. The Campbell family has to fight to stay off their electronics just for family time. I don't think that's right. Family will always be more important than checking facebook. So in order for technology to be ruining a family, i think that's terrible. Overall this article was interesting, it opened my eyes to see that it does have a huge impact on everyone, and everyday. Technology is only going to get worse, and could cause more problems in the near future if people don't start some balance between their life and technology.