Topic > What are the negative effects of technology essay

The growing market for mobile applications can also be attributed to the increased use of technology. Apps enable a wide range of useful tools: note taking, flashcards, specialized searches, and to-do lists. When information is available at your fingertips; from checking a term or calculating your GPA. In the “old days” a high school diploma was a great achievement and qualified you for a job. Nowadays high school graduate jobs are considered low class. Education is changing to adapt to the changing world. On more than one occasion, classes were canceled due to a malfunctioning projector. It's not just colleges and universities, elementary schools are starting kids off on the wrong foot with calculators and spell check instead of good old fashioned flashcards and wooden toys for counting or drawing circles on paper for division problems or multiplication. “As the Internet becomes our main source of information, it is affecting our ability to read books and other long stories. This process of rewiring our brains carries the danger of flattening human experience even as it offers the benefits of efficiency and immediacy of knowledge” (wrote Nicholas