Differences Between “multitasking Can Make You Lose... Um... Focus” by Alina Tugend and “is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr

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Essay 2

October 15, 2017

In this Generation, technology happens to be around us more often than ever before and majority of technology is catching our attention. In these two articles, “Multitasking Can Make You Lose… um… Focus” by Alina Tugend and “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, they talk about very interesting subjects involving the internet. The internet happens to be a big part of technology, so huge having to provide all these different web browsers such as Google, Bing, Yahoo. Having all these web browsers people could multitask more, by opening different tabs at once. The similarities between both articles happens to be more similar than different. When it comes to talking about technology and how technology can affect the brain, and how technology can be addicting.

In Tugend’s article, she explains how people tend lose focus very easily, due to multitasking, whether it's searching the web or on the phone but people are always multitasking. Having the brain multitask can then have your brain slow down. “Although the time it takes for our brains to switch tasks may be only a few seconds or less, it adds up.” When this time adds up over time people then began to lose focus and our brains could get slower or forget a few things. “As we are required, or feel required, to do more and more things in a shorter period of time, researchers are trying to figure out how the brain changes attention from one subject to another.” Our attention can only be held for so long until boredom strikes and subjects begins to change. Thinking about other subjects can affect how quickly people think when they are multitasking other subjects in our mind. Where Carr can agree in his article as well, Carr can argee too much thinking or boredom can wondering or multitasking leading to your brain to slow its thinking process. “The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.” Humans have this process where our brain stops or slows down causing brain farts. Having them both agree can show how boredom or excessive multitasking can affect the brain.

Tugend also touches upon technology and how it could also make you lack focus or even multitasking on the web is lack of focus. “We All know that computers and their spawn, the smartphone and cellphone, have created a very different world from several decades ago, when a desk worker had a typewriter, a phone and an occasional colleague who dropped into the office.” Technology has been around from years now but the more humans advance into technology, the more people lack our surroundings. Carr explains how technology progresses over time. “The process of adapting to new intellectual technologies is reflected in the changing metaphor we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.” Individuals create the technology to be distracted by and Carr says the more people on google or anything internet based, the dumber humans get. “As we use what the sociologist Daniel Bell has called our ‘intellectual technologies’ - the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities - we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.” People let their minds wander, making humans