Month: October 2017

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Bill Wasik begins this chapter of his book by talking about boredom. He said that he believes that boredom is worth interrogating in some detail. In 1986, a test was designed to comprehensively measure boredom within the individual. There were 28 true or false statements to assess how boredom-prone the individual can be. Many of these statements I can personally relate to. For example I find it hard to concentrate, I find myself constantly trapped doing meaningless things, I worry about other matters while I work, and most importantly, I am bad at waiting patiently and can get extremely restless. These are just a few examples that Wasik uses to compare himself to a boredom prone person that I also can relate to. Today’s fast-paced world I believe that many people can relate to the statements. I was importantly technology plays a large role on how we view boredom. Technology acts as a solution to most people’s state of boredom. No longer do we have to be content with our boredom, we only have to just pick up our phones and use them to go on the internet so that we no longer have to be bored.

The Internet was the backbone im Bill Wasik’s Mob experiment. Without any descriptions, Bill sent an email without being straightforward about what the gathering would be like Ultimately the people receiving emails would come together for no specific reason because they had no idea what this event would be about. As time went on word spread and many people had appeared to this gathering. This gathering had been on headlines and throughout the media and articles have been written about this as well. A little while after she had received many emails saying that different parts of the country wanted to follow in his footsteps and create a gathering similar to his. It is amazing to think about that with just one email, many people can be brought together. Without today’s technology and Internet word would not be so easily spread in this experiment would not be as effective.

The Internet was the backbone im Bill Wasik’s Mob experiment. Without any descriptions, Bill sent an email without being straightforward about what the gathering would be like Ultimately the people receiving emails would come together for no specific reason because they had no idea what this event would be about. As time went on word spread and many people had appeared to this gathering. This gathering had been on headlines and throughout the media and articles have been written about this as well. A little while after she had received many emails saying that different parts of the country wanted to follow in his footsteps and create a gathering similar to his. It is amazing to think about that with just one email, many people can be brought together. Without today’s technology and Internet word would not be so easily spread in this experiment would not be as effective.

My revision plan begins with revising my thesis. I want to reconsider how my thesis is worded and make sure that my ideas are clear. Next I will be adding another claim to my paper. I want to talk about the negative effects technology can have on the brain. I also may add in a couple of more quotes into my paper. One of the most important  things I need to do is go back and read my sentences aloud. I found the article read in class to be extremely helpful when trying to stray away from run on sentences. I also think by reading aloud will allow my organization and sentence flow to improve. The final important thing that I need to improve my paper is to fix my introduction and conclusion. My introduction needs to be less choppy and explain my topic better. My conclusion needs to be longer and refer back to my claims made in the paragraphs. It is important for me to wrap up my ideas and why they are important to my thesis.

In Thomas King’s TEDx talk, he explains that we do not need to remember as many things that we used to in the past considering we have information available to us at almost any time

In Thomas King’s TEDx talk, he explains how there are many changes in the way we used to live. Considering we can have information available to us at any time, we do not have to remember things like we used to.  

 

Why would they have any other reason to believe that doing two or three things at the same time would be more productive than doing each task at separate times?

What other reason do they have to believe that doing two tasks at once would be more productive the doing them each individually?

 

Although the brain is meant to do more than one thing at the same time, such as walking and chewing gum, multitasking is not necessarily doing two things at once efficiently.  What happens is, the brain shifts rapidly between the two tasks.

Our brain is meant to do more than one thing at a time. If this were not true, then we would not be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Multitasking, however, is not doing two things at once, it causes the brain to shift rapidly back and forth between the two tasks.

 

One thing that many people decide to do to distract themselves is multitask.

A common distraction in today’s world is multitasking.  

 

The three texts I will be using are Restak’s “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era” Anderson’s “In Defense of Distraction” and King’s “Adults, We Need to Have the Talk.” My main argument is that the wealth f constant informations is weakening young minds. Before technology, life was more calming and less busy. In today’s world, we are in a state of constant change and multitasking. This causes the demands on our brain to increase. When this happens, our brain can become overburdened causing it to become inefficient and prone to mistakes. This constant use of our brains is literally beginning to change the structure of it. Kings states that knowledge is power, but now we can have access to any information at a given moment. Both Anderson and Restaktalk about ADHD so this topic will be discussed in a separate paragraph.