Blog#4 

In the article by David Brooks ‘Building Attention span’ and the video with Nicholas Carr ‘what the internet is doing to our Brains.’ Both talk about how crystallize intelligence is under threat due to the internet. 

In the article that Brooks wrote he mentions how the internet effects the brain way thinking and how crystallized intelligence isn’t how I should be. For example in the article he said ‘ You have trouble concentrating for long periods.’ This makes crystallized intelligence under a threat ;because people are addicted to the internet can not concentrate for a long amount of time. Definitely can not concentrate long enough learn something valuable and important. 

In the video with Nicholas Carr he mention how our crystallizing intelligence is under threat. He says this because we are becoming more consumed by technology. And technology is shortening our tention span. Doing that makes it harder for humans to learn something through crystallized thinking. Another thing he mentions is that us having everything at a click of a button is another reason why crystallized thinking is going down hill for human kind. 

Both Brooks and Carr do not approve to fuild intelligence. They both do not like how internet is dumbing us down and make us an outsiders to the crystallized intelligence. And the more we are depend on the internet the more we jeopardize crystallized intelligence. And the more that the internet dumbs is down  and corrupts the crystallized intelligence.