Addiction
to the Internet World
Carr, Stanley Kubrick's 2001:A Space Odyssey named in the film, robot's
artificial
Carr University College London
talks about a research that has been carried out by scientists. In the research
conducted as part of the five-year, the scientists examined computer logs
documenting the behavior of users to two popular research sites, one operated
by the British Library and one by a U.K. educational consortium, that provide
access to journal articles, e-books, and other sources of written information.
According to the results of the research, the researchers see that people using
the sites jump from one source to another. It is understood that they rarely
looked only one or two pages of some of the sources they visited, and that they
only en "a form of skimming activity" between sites. There is no
evidence that they have read the web pages that they have visited and then
froze back. It is concluded that the only purpose of them being online is
"power browse". What this research shows us is that the internet
serves a purpose that allows us to just roam the information sea rather than
learning and thinking. Carr says again. We are reading more than the 1970s and
1980s, when the television was released, Carr talks about how we read more, but
in depth analysis, interpretation, and in depth the structure of our thoughts
of what we read, we are beginning to diminish. Carr supports that claim of
Fredicrick Nietzsche the, writing materials are involved in touch-writing.
Because the touch of our fingers touching the pen or touching the pen when
writing a text, the effect of the work of the tool used in the formation of the
thoughts transmitted to our brain shapes our words and thoughts. Carr draws
attention to the fact that the human mind can program itself again infinitely.
He states that people are limiting their wishes and desires and only preventing
the development and change of the brain by routinely doing the same things.
Based on that, Carr says the people were abandoning their wishes and desires by
clock's invention. In other words, eating, sleeping, working as well as
everything is determined according to the hours set. He talks about the need
for people to live connected to something. Now, nowadays, people are starting
to act according to the internet and a digital routine is trying to explain
that began to occur. He tells us that people are now accustomed to the world of
the internet and that their old habits went to the internet world.
According to Carr, the Internet
is a machine designed to automatically collect, transmit and store information.
It has been intented to reach the requested information in the shortest time
and immediately. Google is now the headquarters of the data source. According
to Carr, Google believes that the more information people know, the more
productivity and benefits they will gain. Carr tells us that Google's founders
need to develop data flow between the human brain and the internet through
artificial intelligence. This suggests that it will benefit the further
development and perfection of the human brain. Carr tells us that when people
started to rely on computers in the past, the basis of artificial intelligence
was being created. In Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyses, Carr emphasizes that even
though the robot told the astronaut that how robot felt and begged, people are
turned into an emotionlessness machine. Carr is trying to tell us that the
situation in the future will not be different from the scene of this film.
Technology is a curiosity of
mankind since the past. We've always watched a number of movies that show us
that we're being controlled by robots in the future. Before the 1900s, when
technology was not used much more intensely, people were thinking about
everything and doing physical endeavors. At that time, I think people
understand what they read when they read a book and think they've been thinking
about them for days. Otherwise, the invention of almost every material we used
in our lives would not have been done at that time. Because all of the most
important inventions were done when there was no television or internet. I
think people use their minds more in order to understand the information in the
books they read, and they were applied their thoughts in depth analyze. For
example, the phone that Graham Bell invented was just to talk. Now what we call
the phone we use, the devices that separates us from the real world. The visual
devices such as the Internet and television restrict our thoughts about the
world and the universe. This fills our mind simply with the figment and
meaningless things. Because if he can use human mind and thoughts deeply,
miraculous things emerge. As Carr mentions, we all have problems in focusing
and thinking about what we read. Nowadays, this problem is present in everyone,
because our mind is always in a play, or in a television series or in another
meaningless place brought by the internet. I mean, our minds and thoughts are
not free. Our mind and brain had been trapped between technological advances
and devices. If it goes like this, we won't be seeing the scenes in Kubrick's
movie after a very long time.
According to our discussion
question, In my view, the ethical implications of this paper show the changes
in the effects of technology on human world and human physiology. Technology
has always been in the development from the primitive in the world to the
present day. After now, the technological developments lead to the
technological dependence of people and the weakening of their human skills
rather than the tools used for the benefit of people. People begin to become
lazy in their cerebral thoughts and activities. Even normal chats and social
activities are done on the internet. According to this table, this is the point
where humanity has reached in the technological sense. Google, a huge
information store in the Internet world, has become a part of people's lives
now. This can be discussed ethically because people are no longer in search of
information curiosity as they used to be. There is almost no information that
people have never heard of today or if they do not know a word they immediately
ask Google. However the excitement and curiosity of learning new knowledge in
people has disappeared. Today people are no longer seeking new knowledge.
Because they have a huge information storage "Google" under their
hands. As we have in the past, we don't read too much at the moment and we
don't think in depth, but we still have our human feelings. We are aware of the
changes from past to present. If we act in the consciousness of these
differences, we can protect ourselves from becoming a mechanized
emotionlessness person.
Written by Erdogan Akbiyik
