The internet is a busy place. It's used for business, entertainment, research, etc, but is the use of it messing up our brains? In his book, Nicholas Carr constantly makes the point about the use of internet altering and distorting the functionality of our brains. His explanation for this claim is that the internet is always bustling and deviating from topic to topic. He says that the mind is programmed to be naturally easily distracted thus enforcing the effect that the internet gives. Wandering from the original point of focus to study other eye catching subjects combined with the natural tendency to be distracted will most likely lead to "scattered attention." However, is the information learnt from the other subjects retained?
Other than aquiring a bad habit of subject hopping, the question if any of that information was actually learnt comes on course. Because there was really no sort of focus or set attention, I'm wondering if any of the random stuff that was read on Wikipedia was kept in mind. Can people remember every single thing they read online while remembering the original information that they were supposed to be studying?
Raqsmey Kong
Maybe not every single things, but people may remember most of the random information that searched up while looking for a different topic. If it was interesting, if it was good enough to remember, if it was entertaining, amusing even, then it was probably remembered.
ReplyDeleteWe'll store random information in our brain, and most likely, it'll be the information we thought was worth keeping. The things we think as entertaining, the information that amuses us occupy our brains because nowadays, what's the point of knowing something not funny? You can't make your friends laugh with something political. Unless it was a joke or a meme, most likely, we wouldn't store information that didn't amuse us in our brains.