Khansa: That Technology is Bad for Our Memory

Everything in this world can effect us. It's about us, if we use it too much, it can possibly effect our health, or even make us die. But first, does technologies effect our memories? The answer is YES, technologies are always effect our memories. According to experiment.com, technologies shapes our memory, our social life, our perception of things, our intelligence, and our mood. Tony Schwartz, CEO of The Energy Project, explain this water phenomenon. He compares the brain to a full glass of water. When you pour more water into the glass, or add new information, the water just fill in, yet the water that was previously there pours out. He is showing that the information that we are retaining from technology  replaces our old information and that information just leaves our brain. It means that our old memories will just leave our brain while we doesn't know weather that information was important or not. Beside it, there are still many NEGATIVE IMPACT from technology for our memories that I'll mention it while delivering my argument. Before that, let's talk about the definition first.

            According to quora.com, Technology is a body of knowledge devoted to creating tools, processing actions and extracting of materials. We use technologies to accomplish various tasks in our daily lives, in brief; we can describe technology as products, processes or organizations. Also, according to Study.com, It includes machines (like computers) but also techniques and processes (like the way we produce computer chips). Technology have many benefits  for us, but not for our memories. Sometimes people are only think about the benefits only, they didn't care about the negative side. Without they know, technology can be DANGEROUS for our memories. But Why? Let's find it in my first argument.

            The fact is that the internet has so much information that is easily accessible, but we as humans are tend to not remember that much information. Like what I've mentioned before, if our brain recieved too many knowledge, our old memory will replaced by the new memory we got from the internet. Imagine if you drank too many water. Then you drink it again and again. The previous water can possibly be issued from your body. You can be gag or even sick. That's what makes technologies are bad for our memory. Even if our brain can hold more information, there will be so many information to remembered, and our brain can be confuse, because it's too " messy" for our brain to remember it. Then we will be easy to get forget about everything else.

        My second argument will be my MAIN ARGUMENT for all my argument. Beside all of it, we know, that our technology are now " higher " than before. There are already gadgets, computer, and many things else that we know it can distract our kid to play it more and more. With distracted, our memories are harder to recieve and remember new memory. It possibly BROKE our memory storage to not easy to remember something and easy to forget something. Let me ask you something. If even old people can be distracted by internet/ gadgets, do you want your important memory been forgotten just like that? People created technology to make humans live better. But why what they do is just make them more forgetful?

         With reading all of my argument, ofcourse you can predict that I definitely AGREE with this motion that technology is bad for our memories because technology such as internet have many information that we as human are not suppose to remember all of that huge memory and also as my main argument, because technology can Possibly DESTROY our memory with distracting kid or even ADULTS wich is make us harder to remember more information. Thats why you should watch your kid while playing with their gadget. Without they know, It can broke their memories or even their health if they use it too much. And I surely believes that this motion should STAND.

By Khansa Primary 5