Second Post: Article Response

This post is a response to an article called Attached to Technology and Paying the Price written by Matt Richtel. Overall the article talks about how technology has been consuming our lives, changing the way we think and even rewiring our brains to adapt to these changes. The focus is on the Campbell family, where technology is used 24/7. Using them as an example the article continues to talk about how the use of technology has caused stress and distraction not only in the Campbell family but in all people who use technology frequently. Although I agree somewhat this the article, as I read all i kept thinking is how negative it was, the distractions, stress, less focus and so on. I can agree that this can occur with the overuse of technology but not in a normal persons everyday regular use. It compares our use of technology to an addiction, but I think that when used correctly and efficiently technology is more of a benefit than something of a negative consequence. It has really allowed our communication to expand in ways we never imagined. The article does skim over a few positive outcomes of our use of technology but it doesn't expand on the vast amount of positive things that it has provided us with, things like medical advances, teaching methods, all types of communication etc. I did take the opportunity to try out the interactive test that tested your focus. There were two parts a focus test and a test that measured your ability to juggle multiple tasks. It turns out I scored relatively high on the focus test, in fact a scored 100%. The test involved red and blue boxes and you had to watch a flash of the picture and then tell if the red boxes rotated at all. No matter how many blue distraction boxes appeared I ended up being able to focus on just the red ones. The juggle task test however, I didn't do so well on. My reaction time was really slow when the task was changed so quickly. Overall I thought the article was interesting. I do feel however it was giving all our advances in technology a bad reputation instead of exploring them. Technology is a wonderful thing and even if using it on a regular basis has our brains rewiring and adapting and learning, that doesn't mean it's a bad thing.