What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Most of us are on the Internet on a daily basis and whether we like it or not, the Internet is affecting us. It changes how we think, how we work, and it even changes our brains.
We interviewed Nicholas Carr, the author of, "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains," about how the Internet is influencing us, our creativity, our thought processes, our ideas, and how we think.
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Most people are uncomfortable being alone with their thoughts and call it "boredom". So that's probably part of the problem. Even myself though, as an introvert who likes being alone with my thoughts often, I find the internet has an addictive draw to it. It's easier to flit around on the internet, not having to exert your own thoughts, as opposed to doing more effortful activities like reading a book or playing guitar, or just sitting and contemplating. So I guess a balance between plugged-in and unplugged time is necessary.
+jbarkerhill92 Agree.
Then why you on da internet brah's
+jbarkerhill92 This so true and an important realisation if we want humanity to flourish
Patrick McCarthy
Humanity will flourish with or without it. Most of humanity is doomed anyway, and only few will survive. What we need is control over ourselves, our needs, and internet for this civilization to survive.
I wasn't meaning to imply that we should never use the Internet, I was thinking more along the lines of being aware of the detrimental effects it can have on our brains. The Internet is a tool, like a hammer, you can use it to fix things or you can hit yourself on the head with it I just hope humanity doesn't knock itself out, that's all.
THis video distracted me while I was finding a cure for cancer.
+TheWieriekenshin hate it when it happens.
Did you find the cure?
The cure is your Diet, Physical Activity.
Amélie Gagne 😂 obviously, hence the reason he said he was looking for one. As of right now we believe there isn’t, but theoretically there is.
Are you Alive??
Too many people don't understand how to use the internet. Abandoning it would be absurd and ignoring it is just as useless. Harvest the internet's potential and give it.
rebelbebel I know how to "Use" it.
You are my lord
A funny thing happened as I was watching this video. At 2:15, right as the video was mentioning an email coming through, I got a message from someone, and it completely derailed my train of thought.
I never realized it before, but these little distractions are now built into our devices and our everyday lives. I was previously a person who read long books and was able to focus for hours at a time. Nowadays, my brain has grown noticeably softer and I'm unable to focus for long periods of time.
Nonetheless, after I realized what had happened, I ignored the message, rewound the video and disabled all notifications on my phone after finishing. This is a real thing and it took this happening for me to realize it.
I actually remember what life was before I got involved with the internet world. I actually drew a lot, concentrated better in school, read books to entertain myself, and talked to friends face to face. Now I can't go a day without being constantly on my phone and I believe that it stresses me out. Like what passwords I forgot on Social Media and other websites, worry more about what's on my page instead of reality, and other things. Heck, I barely even remember what I look up online for class. And other kids at my age or below are addicted to technology. They can't go without their smartphones or tablets for more than five minutes.
So I'm basically saying that the internet can have some fun to it, but it can also make us addicted to it.
True in so many ways
I failed school because of NO internet.
ok boomer
Thats what i was thinking now. Was outside playing all the day. With the internet i tried to start a business till today. Not Easy.but working with the computer is also a passion. Drawning. DJ. Making music etc.
i would like but it’s on 69, sorry mate
I personally think tv is worse because we don't have a lot of decision on tv but with the Internet there is two sides to it because some people use it like your saying but some people use it to learn and create things and do amazing things that we've never been able to do before
Thelonious Omori TV rarely even broadcasts educational programmes compared to the norm (at least in the UK), most of it is reality or drama just because thats all people want to watch, if anything the TV deserves a good look at rather than the internet.
Its not that the internet is bad. But we shouldn't abuse it so much as we do.
Thelonious Omori I Play ROBLOX on my Computer
Alusine Sow we dont care
Internet is more entertaining than TV. I would always play outside when i was little instead of TV. Less comercials than ill watch the garbage on TV. Internet is what caused me to get friends. Remove internet ill loose my friends and be a depressed kid again who sighs everytime someone talks to them. Im more happy on the internet but getting lazier. Its kinda unhealthy that we all play on a device instead of finding new creatures
I'm an artist and a writer and I enjoy the Internet and to be honest the Internet helps fuel my art and intellect. I will spend time researching, watching a documentary, listening to music, and then I will take probably hours using that information to just sit and think creatively. To philosophize and brain storm ideas and come up with ideas and opinions. I do not forget the information I learn on the Internet. For me it is not short term. And to be honest I don't understand how it is different than sitting at a desk and listening to a teacher spout relevant or irelevant information for 7 hours and hardly interacting. How's that better than sitting in front of a tv watching a documentary for three hours? Or reading a book for 5? Or reading several books all the time? Why do you think teachers show kids documentaries now instead of teaching? I don't get distracted by the Internet. That never really happens. I decide when I will get on the Internet and when I feel I've been recharged and fed my curiosity I will start forming my ideas. My ideas will distract me from learning. This applied to me in school as well. Usually the reason I wasn't paying attention in class wasn't because I saw an Internet meme but because what they were teaching gave me an idea and I started to develop that idea. That hypothesis. But it was pretty irrelevant to the class so it didn't matter. The kind of questions I asked, the teacher could not answer.
+Nina Mendoza I think possessing a mind capable of conceptualizing, creating, and categorizing concurrently as it filters out external distractions or internal physical nd emotional stressors for the primary purpose of increasing neuro-receptors\ learning pathways even while deprived of sleep (nutrition) is such an incredible gift; that we as a race have entirely undervalued for its commonality. (excuse the run-on sentence) No one truly understands what the brain is capable of.
Many people attempt to capitalize on the ignorance of others for personal gain. Many people lack the proper tools to evaluate and discern information appropriately, for environmental, bio-chemical, electro-chemical, or other numerous reasons. Each society enforces varying degrees of magnanimity be displayed amongts their fellows and this NWO crap extends this demand even further.
We are our brothers keepers, we belong to the same race, isolation/ separation and pre-occupation with self IS a plague we are all suffering from. To conclude habituation or over-stimulation is the cause of our apathy and disinterest is nothing more than propaganda and media manipulation. However well intentioned the point may be.
The single cause of human disregard stems directly from the circulation of the almighty dollar. Its ability to allow ownership of a world not meant to be possessed, and the desire to buy and sell goods we should be sharing or trading. All the intolerance, hunger, homelessness, purposelessness, despair and hostilities could be effectively re-mediated by returning to barter and trade
+Nina Mendoza ORLY
+Nina Mendoza In your case, you are using the Internet the correct way: for educational purposes. It's when you procrastinate and watch cat/puppy videos for hours that will kill your creativity.
That's the thing - you also have significant and frequent time periods in which you "log out". That counteracts the negative effects they're describing in the video and you're only taking in the positives. You're doing it right.
+essennagerry Knowledge is not wisdom.To truly understand something you must practice it in real life,not memorize a bunch of text. Scientists only truly know about a subject until they start playing around with it ,using it ,and experiencing it ,simply because you can't teach intuition, and it takes a lifetime to acquire that feel and sense for something to truly understand it.So no the internet is not making you smarter it's making you more knowledgeable but not smarter.Also its making people have ADHD and it makes you loose your ability to have patience among other things.
We had your video as an audio visual comprehension task in school! :)
Awesome! Glad it had a positive impact on you! Thanks for coming back to share your story with us.
First like and first reply
he said: "the internet is good for a lot of things"..
"but the best thing we can do to our mind is to find sometime every day to unplug and calm down and focus on something and focus on one thing at
a time"..
and "the emails and the cats will be there when you get back" !!!
salim albitar k
-Was watching a documentary for a school project
-Saw this video
-Got distracted and started watching it
Completely agree. It bothers me that people have come to rely on this useful technology so much that they take everything as fact without second guessing, doing research, and comparing things. The internet was supposed to make humanity smarter...so why is it that it actually has stupefied us to the point where most people don't even take the time to properly grammar their comments and rely on spell check to fix their words for them and argue using Wikipedia pages.
*****
It's a sign that you re read your sentences before posting them for the entire world to see.
Well, for someone who advocates grammar, you seem to have forgotten your question mark at the end of your statement.
Shane Smith I never said that I was a grammar advocate, I just was making a point.
Well your point isn't completely valid because I would argue that there are two significant groups of online users & variations between...
A)Those who use the internet to accumulate as much knowledge as possible for practical purposes.
B) Those who use it as a drug for instant gratification.
At times I've noticed that when I personally get into the mode of accumulating knowledge online that I'm just using it as a drug to satisfy my desire to learn & improve upon myself when in reality I haven't because I fail to apply myself pragmatically.
If this were true, then why have so many schools incorporated the use of technology in their classroom? The internet does not always produce solid facts but no form of information does. Take books, for example, there are millions of factual books in the world, yet, there are just as many claiming to be factual when they are actually not. Sometimes, the information even gets updated, making the information incorrect in the book. This is the same with newspapers and any other form of publication you can think of. Technology can offer a world of factual information to those who look for it. At least what is found online can be easily updated with new information. Stanford even produced a study that stated technology "can produce significant gains in student achievement." Technology may produce false information sometimes but it's no different from anything else.
Nicholas Carr's "Shallow" issue from 2020 also included the social networks influence. Great reading, highly recommended.
and you need the internet to view this...
Reabetswe Mogapi not exactly, if you rewatch at the start a book is mentioned. This video comes from a book called The Shallows. There is also an article called ' Is Google Making Us Stupid' by same author on this topic.
Hal well what if he didn't know about the book?
History repeats itself I think.
This is actually a extremely well put together video! Used it a lot for educational purposes
Wow that was really interesting stuff wanna learn more think I'll Google it
Dont google, just think. Think and realise how much you can figure out for yourself with logic, and while you do it you will get better at it. Untill understanding a subject is just a matter of associative relativation done in a mere minute.
Calamaistr: That's nice, I think I'll UA-cam it. Lmao, jk. On a serious note UA-cam hasnt quite been as censored as other platforms until these recent 2018 events. Too bad for them the blockchain technology is going to decentralize and uncensor everything.
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To be honest, this was a good video but being distracted by new things, though more frequent now, is not knew. Historians say that Leonardo Da Vinci never stayed focused and constantly switched between tasks. What people need to focus on is practicing moderation, for a certain period of time improve you long term memory by relaxing and just thinking and go on the internet the other part.
I feel that people like me - people with ADHD - are actually unique in that we can sometimes learn things faster than other people. But even for those people with ADHD who don't learn faster, the ability to think about things and make connections that most other people wouldn't is an interesting ability that allows us to come up with things no one else would have thought of from our perspective.
I LOVED THIS VIDEO! Great and hilarious animation, great dubbing, great editing and exactly what I read in Nicholas Carr's book! I translated the talk to Portuguese, how can I give the subtitles to the video creator for him to put them on the video (in the CC option)?
I use this when teaching about Digital Wellness to 8th graders. Well done... more relevant than ever 9 years later.
Muito, muito bom! É mais que necessário repensar sobre o impacto dessas novas tecnologias na nossa vida, e hábitos.. Adorei a ilustração.
I'm now more interested in reading an finishing the book , thank you
Unfortunately, most youngsters, that should see and understand this very important video, probably lost the attention during the first minute of it and went to check what the cats are doing on another channel :(
My brothers not even in his double digit ages yet and he's seen spooky videos and other random stuff on his iPad and I'm over here always watching random stuff on UA-cam even memes,.funny videos, thomas the train, and a bunch of Undertale songs and fnaf.and transformers.
Fuck sakes. I was about to watch a cat video, but I thought what he said in the video "I need to go do something, when I come back, it will still be here" When I got back the fucking video was deleted.
Lol true XD
I barely finished watching the video because I was distracted from the comments
I learned more on UA-cam than I ever did at school.
Were you secretly watching UA-cam at school..... 🙃
@@samlee2562 that's a big no I can already tell. I learned most of my English from the internet instead school
which contradicts everything this video is trying to tell us
@@dragcoldbruh4981 I also learned how to spell and pronounce words on the internet I was spelling almost everything right when I was 8.
@@Sammy-Sam nice
That's very true , I find that I'm constantly reading lots of information everyday on the internet but at the same time none of it stays it just fly away off my head ,
This video really hit close to home.I am guilty of constantly being distracted on the Internet every chance I get.
After watching this, I think it might to a lot of us good to steer aways from the internet for a long time, and focus on other things. Unfortunetely the internet is pretty much the only other way for some of us to socialize; and for us creative individuals in particular and share our artwork and gain feedback.
You're obviously on the Internet right now. Nice. We are, too. But do you know what this place is doing to your brain?
Interesting stuff. I was feeling the truth of this earlier this week. Good reminder to unplug and slow down once in a while.
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Jesus Angel Morato Morato Oh the irony...
From what I see here, your pointing out all the bad stuff about Internet, and computers.
What about all the good things?
I agree with some of your points, but seriously. The flaw with all this shit is people only point out bad things, like
Blockland and Roblox.
All I see are noobs trying to say bad things about the other and no good things.
I've never seen a video try so hard to get us to unsubscribe.
Yes, the information richness becomes a kind of neuorological addiction that becomes difficult to wean ourselves off of. It has been my struggle growing up and coming of age post 2000 in an era where internet is common place. Very well articulated points in this concise vid, I daresay, the digital and internet age poses considerable threats to human well-being.
What a great video and lesson. Thank you so much!
Why is no one talking about the Terraria boss sound at 0:45?
the irony of this video
***** It's saying we should focus on one thing at a time. The irony is this video is one of the many video's you're going to watch on youtube, while checking your phone and surfing the web, as I'm currently doing.
"Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them."
I agree! When on the internet, now I get distracted by other topics etc., things I never even cared about, and still don't! And yet, I click on it. Last week I deactivated fb and don't miss it, its been a relief! Also left an online community a year ago. For the same reason- too much! Just plain overload, and no actual learning. My life is so much better since leaving. I miss it now and then, but rarely thank goodness! After watching this video my next goal is to make a real effort to not click on things I truly have absolutely no interest in, for example, certain celebrities etc. I mean seriously, who cares?! And a lot of what we see of them is actually nauseating! The internet is a weird thing, so we need to really recognize that. Have fun with it, but also, recognize when you've stepped into the internet looney bin.
Most people have long ago assumed they're not going to create a great monument of culture! Most people don't care and just want to be a robot.
Being a robot doesn't sound bad. Besides culture sux.
sɪˈkɑːdə Culture is form everywhere
Let them be. Not everyone can be at the top. It's just how the world works
You dog .auk auk auk go away lah bro
Culture is amazing and robots are kinda scary plus you dont really want to live with a robot I get depressed and anxiety when left alone for too long thats why I use the internet- sadly for closure but I LOVE culture and if you dont sad but not my opinion
I saw this study a long time ago, and it appears that it's missing something very basic, and is pretty misleading (at least partially - it makes a very good point, I can say from experience). One thing it did was test people on a subject in an article, and found that people were scoring much lower when they were internal links. It also makes the assumption that people are trying to make meaningful connections in the first place - maybe people are in a mood to click on things just like people sometimes scan the newspaper or flip channels - it doesn't mean that people will not watch a movie or read a book.
To give an example of the first point, I read articles on Wikipedia, but I don't care about reading the whole article - I'm wanting specific information, which leads me to more information. For example, I might want to know about the Nazi's idea of the Aryan Race (an interest that I do have) - I might go to the article, and learn that the word "Aryan" came from the Sanskrit Rig Veda, which I click on and leads me to learn that the interpretation of a sacred Hindu text led to the study of comparative linguistics, which led to people realizing that the dominant languages of North India through Europe all had a common origin, which led people to believe that it originated with one pure Aryan race. Thus an essential ideology that led to the Holocaust actually originated with the linguistic study of a Hindu text.
Do you really think that the connections I drew here were shallow? I think they are actually pretty profound. And even if I was just looking at cat videos and facebook pics, the same is true for entertainment.
The problem is that studies like these are trying to measure things in terms of a preexisting paradigm, where people were tested for "reading comprehension" in school, which is the anathema to how people actually learn with deep interconnections. If you tested me on how much I retained by reading a full article that you gave me that I have no interest in or selective interest vs. all the stuff that I cared about and clicked on, my comprehension would be off the charts.
Of course, this would be very difficult to measure - and that is an enormous fallacy in science, that a truth is based on what is most measurable (see the Streetlight Effect).
At 1:50 it says, "And it's through moving information from your working memory to your long term memory that you create connections between that information and everything else you know." This is absolutely true, but again, are you measuring the connections I am drawing?? Also, they go hand in hand - the connections that people draw makes information move into your memory as well, as long as they are connected.
Alas, there are great things that come from this study - unless you are in a mood to just see a few short videos and posts, like how we sometimes want to just mindlessly flip channels, you should weave something to create greater meaning - I open tabs instead of clicking and moving back and then make sure that I am not being distracted, going back to my original place of interest. I realized this not from the study, but just from the fact that I was being distracted and not remembering how I ended up where I was. And I do try and focus on things and limit my time going on tangents. Also, the length of things and my attention span has decreased with the internet - I make a point to watch longer things when I can and read longer things, because I am gaining much more depth and maintaining a good degree of patience. The study does make this point, but it makes assumptions that greatly bias it.
Thank you Epipheo this video helped me in my 5 paragraph essay!!!!!
I am 24 and never thought I had a problem with multitasking untill I saw this video. I stopped multitasking while at worked and my performance increased dramatically. THANKS!
Faster you LEARN faster you FORGET!
i78008 the more you play the more leading won't exist
the faster you learn to draw the faster you forget to draw
makes total sence
The internet is technology. Tech is neutral. It can do good or bad depending on how you use it. So use it to learn. Simple as that.
Diego G exactly!!! everyone takes breaks from the internet/tech. you'd be foolish not to.
I think all this is trying to do is educating people about the negative effects. Nobody says we need to shut it down. The more people are aware the more they can use it responsibly. I'm still struggling with how much it distracts you from actually being productive. I might have to go as far as to have a 2nd work pc where I won't have internet access.
@ni6hant but that's a you thing and people who become distracted. If you keep a fixed slot of time to use internet, let's say 3 hours everyday then it's fine. You shouldn't waste 3 hours searching information that you perceive as useless or time wasting but seek out valuable information.
No technology is neutral, and every tool changes us.
Cool that summarized the book in one entertaining video.:) thank you
Great way to present this--had me giggling frequently. My job is finding ways to help my students build and retain complex information, so I'm going to use this in my classroom.
im watching this 3am in the morning.. internet, thank you
While I share the concerns mentioned in this video, I do not agree that, from a philosophical point of view, humanity is at stake, or to be more exact, that this would be of concern. While it is true that all the cultural masterpieces that were mentioned at the end of the video are only possible because of our human nature, this nature is also the reason that we tend to group ourselves according to religion, nation, ideology and then emotionally defend this group, leading to war and death. We are still not mature enough to wisely use the technologies we have, be it weapons, energy or information technology. It is a matter of luck whether we will use all the new technologies we develop for increasing our wisdom or to destroy ourselves. So, as far as I'm concerned, as long as we don't have the philosophical knowledge, the education and culture NOT to hate each other based on some human neglegibilities, I plead for having LESS humanity and MORE technological rationality, i.e. transferring more power to computers.
I mostly agree with you. I mostly disagree with the main points of this video made by Nicholas Carr, the author of, "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,"
Wikipedia is like having a brain transplant when compared with pre internet times of just sitting in your house wondering about stuff or asking your family for the answer and they are like,"Doh, can't remember the details". Well in the past people could have invested in a good quality encyclopedia if they could afford it. With broadband when your family ask you for an answer you still might not be able to remember the details but at least you will know how to get the details in a second - either by google box or webpage. There is an overwhelming amount of detail, was human evolution ever going to enable us to remember so much ? Now we have facebook and twitter and iphone if you are with someone in a cafe and you can't remember the funny things you saw yesterday you could look up your personal notes - facebook timeline to remember - and actually show the person the video or let them hear the song instead of hopelessly trying to describe it.
I'll tell you what real life is like without computers - you go to a party or group meeting place, with the background chat or music you don't hear the name of the book/person/group the other person told you or you find you forgot it 5 minutes later after they were gone or you have no way of listening again to what they were talking about because you can't go out and buy every last video they talk about. Now if you remember something of what they said you are quite likely to be able to find the trail to the good thing.
Look at all the music of UA-cam - you can search through and find the best bits and then read about the history of the musician on wikipedia and go to their website and book a concert or buy their track and give them some money. In the past who could afford to keep buying the whole album when you really only liked one track off it. Of course that can work the other way too when people only share tracks without paying but then there could be a donate button on the musicians website - but then why not just buy a track ?
See the books by Valerie Tarico, Victor J. Stenger, John W. Loftus, Robert M. Price and you will be able to escape the iron age mentality about religion that still holds sway over too many people who remain disconnected from the internet or who still only use it for e-mail to repeat parrot fashion what their ancestors told them.
Maybe shallow is the new deep, cause a lot of deep it just deepity.
Thank you for this awesome information! Really helpful!
Great video. Now on to the next one
Well I am easily distracted, but I still easily learn and permanently remember stuff about science, fandoms, pretty much anything I like. So yeah none of these studies seem to apply to me XD
Артем Митрофанов Not just that, I've got lots of books at home about paleontology and astronomy. I'm not a scientist obviously, just an ordinary teenager, but I could tell you in order every geological period from the Cryogenian through to the Quarternary, I could tell you about what kinds of animals lived in any of those periods, I could tell you the characteristics of any of Jupiter's major moons, a few of Saturn's and all of the planets in the solar system. Of course science is about more than just remembering stuff, and I'm not good at Maths or experimenting, so I couldn't be an actual scientist. But I'm very interested in the discoveries made by science.
You may not believe me but I have 28 tabs open right now and some of them have been there for 2 months.
I believe you.
Fas Maner I have 500
I have been online since 1997 and after 19 years I have started noticing about 4 years ago that I had "developed" ADD to some extent...and I do hatha yoga and philosophical contemplation. I'm always feeling like I can't keep my mind on one task to see it through, and when I do it's a real struggle, and may take days for me to start it. I used to be able to play 60 hour RPG's and dive into them and be single-minded on them - not now. I feel like there is always something else to be doing besides what I'm currently doing. I was never like this before. So I can vouch that the use of computers and the net has changed my brain/ mind.
I opened my laptop ten minutes ago to work on a poem and here I am. Case in point. But I do appreciate this little wake up call. Last week I read You Are Not A Gadget and I'm hoping to stay human even after The Singularity. Now back to the poem.
sadly, I watched this while having a conversation on facebook, and playing a flash game :/
even worse is what internet is doing to people's social skills. You can tell a person who spends lot of time on the internet or facebook or instagram by the abnormal way they act, they're pratically no humans anymore. They don't seem to be able to socialize and make friends unless they go to that person facebook and learn something about him/her that they can use to start a conversation. They are obsessed with taking pictures of everything as if their life depended on capturing every pointless moment of their existence. They also are obsessed with pretending they party 24/24 and know millions of people, as if their life revolved around appearing, fakeness and pretending and nothing is real anymore about them. Most of the time they're unable to look at your eyes level when talking and can't have a conversation without checking their phone every 4 monutes. They're a weird race and evolution will get rid of them since they are an hindrance more than anything, not sure many of them are fit for the survival in the real world.
I have to disagree in one thing. You make it look like the internet makes us antisocial, but imho, it is the other way around. Some people get born with introvertism. It is just coded into their personality and very hard to change. They just need quite a bit more time alone, and the internet is great place for doing just that. Bad social skills are not cause by the internet but by the personality, and less socially able people just tend to be on the internet more.
Adam Španěl in the poorer countries introvertism doesn't exist, it's a learned trait typical of alienated people with their fear of strangers, big house in the suburbs, social class distinction. But in a place like Cambodia for example, where street life is the norm, where people live together most of the time, where you are taught since a young age to interact with the people in the town you live in, shiness and introvertism are almost non-existent. Now since the advent of internet, this has escalated, people are even more introverted but not in a "I'm not-confident way" but in a snobbish "I'm too popular/cool to talk to that guy/girl who doesn't have at least 10000 likes on facebook".
I don't have any friends, so I spent my life on the Internet. There's nothing to lose.
LD.Tube In poorer countries introvertism _does_ exist. Hey, look at me! I can pluck information from air too! Yay!
Kevvlio introvertism is pretty rare when you're less likely to live in a one-dimensional family with lot of paranoia about strangers and the outside and have to live more often in the street, be often in group and so on. The level of shiness between upper class and lower class is blatant and so is between, you know, a place like Boston and one like Rio De Janero
Very nice , well done. I'm reading the shallows book and that's a good simple summarization of the book
Bravo ! Spot on, on so many issues and so many levels !
My math teacher said "you won't always have a calculator with you, you know..." I showed her my iPad...she never said that again
It's addicted but this is what all the Tech is doing:
Guy 1: Hey! Wanna' hear a scary story?
Guy 2: Pfft! Nothing scares me!
Guy 1: Fine... Once upon a time.... There was no INTERNET
Guy 2: STOP!!! STOP!!!
Guy 1: Or Wi-Fi
Guy 2: STOPP!!!!
Great Video explaining details on how the internet distracts us and how not keeping attention on a particular subject can lead to us not fully gaining the knowledge we are comprehending.
Great one,nice combination, I'll share it!
Once I was watching a meme then I find something more interesting and then etc, etc,
What if you're using the internet to learn stuff?
Perhaps I just went and watched math UA-camrs like Vi Hart? I'm not throwing anything out the window, never to go up the elevator , I'm actually bringing things back into the window and then sending them up. I don't even POST PHOTOS.
I never (and hopefully will never) get involved in social media websites, with the exception of UA-cam of course. This is basically why, I have tried to use some social media websites before, but to be honest its almost over whelming how fast paced everything is, even on UA-cam it becomes hard to keep up. I often just take breaks from the internet not because I force myself to, but because I cant help it, its all so fast paced. I prefer to take things slow and enjoy myself :)
“...will be here when you get back”... Bullshit! A lot of information is also taken down, expiring domains day after day and so on and so forth... But this video is damn right after all! Hats off!
0:47 TERRARIA!!!!! MONSTER GRUNT!!!! OMG
you do know it's sampled from even before terraria?
My exact thought 7 years later
Exactly my thought
Dang
Nice try, mom !
It's a great reminder to log off and experience real life. I am totally addicted to the internet but I don't have a smartphone so I can experience real life when I leave the house. As a writer who procrastinates a lot on the internet, I am working on being able to log off even at home so I can create and learn and continue to grow as a human being and not just simply consume.
Tracy.3 what the hell is a “real life”
Thanks to this video, I'm now about to log off and start studying for my Biology lab test.
I know this video was not meant in this way, but as someone with attention deficit disorder it kind of sucks watching this video and feeling like you are stupid because you cannot pay attention for long periods of time. Well better get off the internet now...
Michelle Kristin I have ADHD too and as a naive child, it controlled me. I was unable to think about my actions, I got excluded from school over three times and suspended multiple times. In class I could not concentrate as I was not interested but you know what. I'm older now, more experienced and more mindful. Once you learn to control it and not let it control you, you can do incredible things and learn with intense detail unlike anyone else. Once you develop your mind and thinking, you can use ADHD to your advantage, focus on things that interest you and master them with incredible patience and learn extremely fast. You have the ability to focus ALL you attention at once on something you are passionate about, and block out everything else you find dis-interesting. I am currently at university studying psychology and when I am learning about something I find useful and interesting it is like I'm glued to it, whereas I simply cannot focus on anything I do not. One day you will discover your power, you have a gifted mind. I think this website sums it up best www.healthline.com/health/adhd/benefits-of-adhd#2 ...ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Asperger's Syndrome are highly connected to each other... interesting how some of the world's most influential minds share the same traits as us. Bill gates and Einstein were some that seemed to use their 'disorder' to its advantage, and pretty damn well I think lol. But ADHD isn't all good, I don't know about you but unless I'm comfortable with someone such as friends/family, I find some simple social tasks such as eye contact pretty difficult and sometimes I avoid some social situations completely. I guess i'm pretty introverted. But yeah I see my ADHD came through by the length of this comment xD hope it helps
Michelle Kristin
ALL politicans "suffer" from "attention deficit disorder"!
Jake H Thanks for pointing these things out!!
ADD went untreated and undiagnosed in me until adulthood because people thought my ability to focus on a single creative project for days on end was a symptom of the ABSENCE of it instead of a symptom of the presence of hyper-focus.
As an adult with responsibilities constantly vying for my attention it caused my life to spin out of control--at least, I felt like it was out of control. I felt like I would never be in control of it and that I'd be doomed to never getting anything done.
With the help of my doctor, meditation, and my family, and just general stubbornness, I control it and I use it to pursue things I truly love. I count on my family to let me know when hyper focus is getting out of control. But it CAN be controlled. I, too, avoid social situations, I avoid a lot of things that I think of as "triggers." I withdraw a lot to keep people from talking to me while I execute a task.
Since applying that approach in my life I've accomplished SO MUCH, much much more than people without that ability to hyper focus accomplish in the same time.
Sometimes I feel like a walking liability, a little like Michelle Kristen implied feeling after watching this vid, but the ability to focus on what I love without wavering makes it all worth it. You put this all so well.
Oh and the Autism Spectrum thing...true story!
Melanie Stormm Awesome! :D I'm glad you can relate to my comment, and that you are now in control of it! I can't believe you weren't diagnosed until adulthood?! Oh my god I can see why it caused problems in your life! I was pretty easy to diagnose as a child because I do not have ADD alone, I have ADHD the Hyperactivity part... when combined it equals one naughty child! I'd act impulsively without considering consequences and get into a lot of trouble at school. After I was diagnosed I would take concerta (ADHD medicine) for school days, it would completely change me. I wouldn't want to talk, I would just sit there so it worked but I hated the feeling as it wasn't me. The medication was mainly to prevent to hyperactivity so I wonder whether it would be the same medication for people with ADD. I still find it soooo hard to do tasks with little importance though (like little house tasks), I JUST CANT xD I procrastinate a lot but in the end always get everything done, just always as late as possibly required lol.
YES! The procrastination technique
I watched this during class. Ironic that this is on UA-cam btw.
thank you for inspiring me to disconnect from the internet and reconnect with my creative self
Very important video... I say a must watch for ppl getting carried away by the wow's of the technology, but at the same time not realising how much time are they wasting just to stay in touch, or not miss out the irrelevant conversation happening in the school friends group chat,......
It's funny how you put something contradicting the internet on the internet :/
It's not contradicting the internet, it is pointing out and explaining negative sides of a certain way of using it.
"We live like this, ALL the time." Yep, you've lost me there. bye.
Next! ;)
Great video. Hope it sticks more than it slips.
Love it!!! Super good!!!!
The web is what you make of it.
This video is wrong
Evidence?
I liked this video how it explained to children that it is not good to be in front of a screen and what it does to you.
bruh this video is still in internet
this is nice! gotta share on my facebook!
This video was a great.Thank u so much for share this video
My respect for making such a matter easy to understand for young people. They are a generation at stake here.. not that my (80s) generation isnt, but atleast we experienced sovereign cognitive developement. The current generation does not without battle and most likely social isolation.
When i explain such subjects i talk about the human condition (experiencing and communicating the direct world around us through our senses) and the transhumanist where people experience existence abstractly, this creates both a disconnect (depression) with the physical self but also enforces the emotion of powerlessness as abstract globalism becomes relevant (following news on the other side of the globe for instance) while your own surrounding dissipates. The only solution to this problem is abstainance or optimally to pull the plug.
Let me tell you people something, i havent owned a mobile phone since 2001, i am not exagerating. I do not lend mp's from friends or random passerby's either. I do not use them and have no interest in them. I predicted the social engineering, the conditioning they would bring. I foresaw it and protected myself from the inevitable psychological harm by not ever getting one but sticking to the natural way of dealing with people, the natural proximity of focus. This has prevented alot of distress. I only still use my pc to inform people about the dangers of the digital world for those that now wonder why i do use the pc. And i will continue to do so untill the internet is obsolete atleast in its imbalanced application. If the internet was reduced to merely a tool of documentation oncemore (read PERSONAL computing instead of the network so blatantly put,.. if the internet ceased) i think the world would return to the pleasant, overseeable, connectable place it used to be with the people on it alot happier. And feeling more useful in everyday buisiness.
Excellent video - totally true
Memory consolidation, through working and long term memory are understood well enough to explain away what you ignored. The video did not say you will forget it essentially within minutes, but that consolidation into LTM is interupted. STM may not be impaired, so you will recall the previous webpage, but accurately recalling the information the next day will be difficult. Or maybe you are better than the rest of us, and it doesn't matter what the evidence suggests...
The real problem with technology today is the sneaky way it is evolving: now you can't even really turn off/power down many devices, and imo the way everything seems to be outsourced (you might want to just fill out some job application and before you know it you've had to open like 5 accounts with whatever intermediaries and come up with insane passwords you'll never remember and then upload your resume and then some program automatically tries to auto fill the application with info from your resume but ends up writing the month of June for your first name and Efill from God knows where as your last name, and then you try to fix it but the system tells you you are blocked because apparently you are trying to take over June Efill's account, and then you look for a contact number and find none, on this page you didn't even realize you got sent to from your original site, and you finally contact someone from the place you wanted to apply to and they tell you you need to call a government agency if you are having technical problems because apparently no one at this college you wanted to work at knows how their own online application process works anymore.)
Hey mate, good video that you have here. Keep in touch.
Very good. Thanks
Omg this is so old but still so current
it's the fist time to me to watch ur videos "epipheo", and i really agree with u cuz after i started waching the video ,i moved to ur channel then i moved to ur website to know more about u .:D
Sometimes I find myself using my computer not just for the internet, but also for the software on it. Sometimes I just wanna play a game or even create some art a bit as a distraction. I can mostly watch youtube and things like that and be just fine since some of the videos I watch on youtube are more educational and some others are music and what not. I can still live a healthy life without overtly depending on the internet.
Internet dependence actually has gotten me several anxiety issues. Constantly having to pay attention to multitudes of spam texts sent to some people online that I would rather consider as people I know than actual friends, and that's it. I've noticed the less dependent I am of the internet and social media that I am, the less anxiety that I will have to suffer from, and the more time I get to spend with others, and by myself.
Great video thanks ❤️👍
Me watching this video for English class forget about the assignment because I’ve been distracted and immediately goes to another video
Good Explanation
Thank you for this
Nice video man.... how you did this animation?
Superb!!! Superb!!!! Superb!!! Thanks!!
nice! Good work fellas
Well done, but honestly I find it so difficult to stop using our phones even for 5 hours a day and I think it doesn't mean that if you're not close or you can't see your phone means you don't think of it so, you have to put him away and without thinking about it and that's not easy to do especially with the people who live around you are always use it every single day
I had to watch this video due to a course I'm doing and I'm glad I did! Excellent! Though it's on the internet =D