The book was all about how Technology doesn’t only do things for us, but it does things to us as well. I am a product of the technological age, so I don’t realize how it has affected my brain. To me, this is just the way that I am. I have no previous life from before the internet and smartphones and computers to compare myself to. I am, however, able to see how the internet could be viewed as a “crutch” that could make our brains ‘weaker’. Being a biology major, the parts of the book that talked about neuroplasticity and the brain made a lot of sense to me.

One of the more interesting things I got from this specific class period was the notion of a historical self that transcends history. Thinking about it, I basically agree that humans are probably the same throughout history. We are driven by the same forces and motivations no matter what the time period is. As we evolved and became more comfortable and had to worry less about survival, we were able to focus more time on civility and culture and other things that our ancestors may not have had time to prioritize, but in the end we are more similar to them than we may think.