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  1. May 2019
    1. That insight sheds light on society’s current gullibility crisis, in which people are all too quick to credit lies and half-truths spread through social media. If your phone has sapped your powers of discernment, you’ll believe anything it tells you.

      We must be the creators of our own thoughts and not let ourselves be influenced by everything our phone tells us. We must develop critical and constructive thinking in order to achieve meaningful learning. https://www.success.com/how-to-develop-critical-thinking-skills/

    2. Now that our phones have made it so easy to gather information online, our brains are likely off-loading even more of the work of remembering to technology

      The work of the brain, when it has more information and more types is increasing, but is this really positive for human development? Or would it be more appropriate that I did not have so much information, but that we would be able to have better social and communication skills?.

    3. s constant connection to the net, its multiplicity of apps, its responsiveness, its portability — are the very ones that give it such sway over our minds

      All these advantages that smart phones provide are what make us like them more and more and we spend a lot of our time with them. I think that in the past the most important feature was the portablidad, but in the present I think it is the connection to the internet.

    4. It suggests that our thoughts and feelings, far from being sequestered in our skulls, can be skewed by external forces we’re not even aware of

      Based on my personal experience, I consider that this statement is true, since many times I am not aware of the time I spend in front of electronic devices. I know it is not the right thing to do and I intend to avoid it, but instead, the next day I repeat it because I am not aware.

    5. Whether turned on or switched off, they promise an unending supply of information and experiences

      The amount of information that these devices can generate every time is going to more and therefore the influence that this has on people is also increasing.

    6. inhibited the development of interpersonal closeness and trust” and diminished “the extent to which individuals felt empathy and understanding from their partners.

      I consider that the problem begins, when this point is reached. At the moment, when these technological devices begin to aggravate your social and communicative abilities, you have to look for solutions and be aware of the seriousness.

    7. Imagine combining a mailbox, a newspaper, a TV, a radio, a photo album, a public library and a boisterous party attended by everyone you know, and then compressing them all into a single, small, radiant object. That is what a smartphone represents to us.

      This affirmation that the author does, is what generates smartphones have all this success, is a lot of services in a very small object that you can take with you to all sides and that can give you the information you want in just seconds .

    8.  Smartphones have become so entangled with our existence that, even when we’re not peering or pawing at them, they tug at our attention, diverting precious cognitive resources

      Personally, I believe that not only the students, but all the people have to train and mentally work to be able to handle these situations adequately and focus attention on what we really want and need at that moment.

    9. the subjects whose phones were in view posted the worst scores, while those who left their phones in a different room did the best

      In this sentence, it is still clearly referenced, the huge distraction that smarthone can generate students just by having them in sight even without using them.

    10. The researchers recruited 520 undergraduates at UCSD and gave them two standard tests of intellectual acuity.

      The inclusion of the description of studies or real and objective investigations makes that personally, my interest in what I am reading increases, and I want to continue knowing more about this topic.

    11. Dr. Ward suspected that our attachment to our phones has grown so intense that their mere presence might diminish our intelligence

      The author of this article, continues to use people of authority who have conducted studies on this subject, to give him in this way a greater credibility to the article he has done.

    12. he has seen mounting evidence that using a smartphone, or even hearing one ring or vibrate, produces a welter of distractions that makes it harder to concentrate on a difficult problem or job

      Smartphones can not only produce distractions in people when they are using it, there are many alarms, reminders and other types of warnings that attract the attention of people and make it difficult to concentrate on whatever activity they are doing.

    13. Not only do our phones shape our thoughts in deep and complicated ways, but the effects persist even when we aren’t using the devices.

      I am completely in agreement with this statement, since for example there are many people, who when they do not have their phones, change their behavior and can even act negatively, since they see it as part of their body, instead it is simply a phone.

    14. Their extraordinary usefulness gives them an unprecedented hold on our attention and a vast influence over our thinking and behavior

      The great multitude of apps and services so varied that it offers, generates that we, the consumers, focus most of our time and attention on it and many times, they are determinants of our thinking, and even social networks can change the state of mind from one of our days completely.

    15. he smartphone has become a repository of the self, recording and dispensing the words, sounds and images that define what we think, what we experience and who we are

      As it says in this sentece. Nowadays the new technologies are in continuous development and one of the most used electronic devices is the smartphone that is our whole life and our personality.

    1. We live in a transparent age, and yet there is much of value that happens in the opaque quarters of our own ambivalent minds, seen by no one else, and seen by us only after a long period of concentration and looking.

      I believe that, although there are many instruments that facilitate the dissemination of information for writers, social transparency is still struggling with the inability of many authors to publicly transmit their ideas and works.

    2. Technological innovations regarding writing—the typewriter, the electric typewriter, the computer and all its word-processing tools—have been about removing impediments to publishing one’s words

      All these new technological innovations have facilitated the world of writing and publishing, offering more and more possibilities of composition and publishing edition. This situation has generated many advantages to the writers of our generations, but also, at the same time, competitiveness has increased.

    3. This is one of the central paradoxes of our culture—everything is swallowed into oblivion but nothing goes away.

      I believe that this sentence that the author affirms can be applied to all aspects of life not only to the culture

    4. Some people need to know what they are thinking in order to write it down or say it, and some people need to write or speak in order to know what they are thinking.

      Comparing this statement with my personal experience, regarding this, I must say that in my case I need to know what I really think and I want to write it later. In other words, I can not write something that I do not know or do not have in my mind.

    5. I had always thought of Twitter as being a good place to work out ideas: a place to mull things over in public, and a way of documenting a thought to make it more likely that I would remember it.

      I totally agree with the idea that this part of the article exposes the author, and that everything that is published will be on the internet so it will be easier to remember. In addition, you can also interact with the opinions of other people and learn new information.

    6. I found the experience to be strange, exhilarating, outrageously narcissistic, frightening, and embarrassing. In other words, like writing. But also like acting, or playing a concert

      The comparisons that the author uses here and to be able to open their feelings thoughts and emotions about the experience that is counting, I found very interesting and has entertained me a lot.

    7. wanted to recount an experience but wasn’t sure what I thought of it, and suddenly the idea of writing in public seemed like it would force me toward a further understanding.

      The author, showing a personal experience makes his article not only based on data or information from other authors of authority or other statistical data, but his experience generates that readers can also know more about it.

    8. ut could Twitter possibly be productive, beyond the basic act of publicizing what you have written and/or proving that you still exist?

      This sentence is a clear example of an unanswered question that the author asks the recipients. This is a strategy, which to me personally, has made me think, open my mind. This type of questions, makes you not only read an information and it is already, but you are part of it and you can think for yourself.

    9. Almost everybody who is a writer these days gets, at some point, a lecture on the necessity of being “on” Twitter and Facebook. It’s a tool of selling and career building

      The development of the media, publicity and especially social networks has made writers today have the need to use these social tools to promote their books, articles or others and thus be able to gain popularity

    10. anaging the anxiety of composition is an essential part of writing

      Managing anxiety when writing, is one of the problems that most complicate the authors, especially those who are not used to using these social networks and their work is excented to a broad audience. Writers have to be able to find that balance and express what they want in the right way without generating controversy.

    11. The editor Ted Solotaroff wrote an essay called “A Few Good Voices In My Head,” in which he talked about managing this feeling of having an audience. His prescription is summed up in his title: a couple of trusted voices with whom a writer will engage in a dialogue

      In these sentences, the author is showing an example that makes the article have a greater authority and that the recipients can know real cases of the relationship between twiter and writer. In addition, it deals with the idea of the audience, which is a key element for any type of publication. The audience is what often defines success.

    12. Writing on Twitter brings the energy of a début to every phrase. You could say it imbues writing with a sense of performance, though writing has always involved performance in the sense of performance anxiety.

      I consider, just like the author, that the writing in Twiter is related to the word performance, because no matter how good the ideas or thoughts of a writer are about something if they are saved for it and not shared with the public, the Only performance you can get is the staff. On the other hand, if all this is done to the public, many other types of performance will be developed.

    13. Though Twitter is not exactly a new writing technology, it is a technology that is affecting a lot of writers.

      Nowadays, Twiter is becoming a very beneficial tool for writers and many times thanks to this their works or texts continue to develop properly.

    14. these technologies, however different they made the experience of composition, produced writing that was, at first, for the eyes of the writer alone.

      Many years ago, when writers wrote their thoughts concerns or texts, many times they were the only ones who could read it, they and their close people. On the other hand, nowadays with the new technologies, it is possible to get a dissemination through different ways in a fast and efficient way.

    1. sat down on my couch and began plugging away the first chapter, and noticed that it took 17 minutes of nonstop of reading to tip over to the 2% mark. Doing some quick mental math, I calculated that the whole book would be 27 hours of solid, uninterrupted reading

      Sometimes the begginings of books are not entirely what the reader likes, but as you continue reading, the taste for reading and the plot of the characters is increasing.

    2. Mind you, I certainly wrestled with social distractions. Your phone is, as I’ve often joked, not really so much a “phone” as a “portal through which five or six gigantic multinational firms fight for your attention so they can sell you advertising.”

      Why fight against technology?Why not, instead of fighting against it, we intend to find a balance that allows us to take advantage of all its facilities, but at the same time that it does not become something that produce addiction or worsen our communicative processes face to face.

    3. We break it ourselves, voluntarily, checking and rechecking Facebook the instant our mind wanders away from the plot of a novel.

      This corresponds to another of the disadvantages of the phones at any time we can access another app and leave reading aside.

    4. eading War and Peace turned out to be not only fun but habit-forming. One of the chief delights of living in the future, as we do, is that many of the world’s big, historic books are in the public domain and have been scanned by the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, or Google Books.

      I think that if a book becomes a habit or a routine of your day to day means that this book is bringing something good to your life and that's why you keep reading, because reading a book is not a mandatory thing that you have to do, but if you continue to dedicate your time to it, it is because it entertains you or is enriching you.

    5. If I had a Kindle meter for my life, it would probably show I’m — what, maybe 11% of along the path of the historic novels I hope to read?

      In this question, the author gives the reading a more ironic or funny point of view that makes the reader can experience new senses and see the personal opinions of the author. This is important to break this boring monotony that only provides information without different perspectives.

    6. To pass the time, I’d pull out War and Peace, intending to read for only a few minutes — but then get sucked in, and stay there for an hour, lying on the ground.

      This same situation happens to me with a project that I am carrying out in my last class of ids, when I begin to investigate about it I can spend hours and hours enjoying it and I do not realize the time that passes. Why do not we continue doing what we like?

    7. The phone offered other delights that paper couldn’t. Midway through the book, voice dictation on the iPhone started to get really, really good. I’d been doing a lot of highlighting while reading Tolstoy, saving my favorite sentences and passages.

      Another advantage offered by the phone is to mark or highlight all the information or sentences that the reader is moved and likes and so you can enjoy them later when you want without having to be looking page by page

    8. But what happens if we treat digital screens with the same romance, the same intensity of focus? Studies suggest that the cognitive distinctions go away:

      The new designers have to answer this question and be able to design digital books that have that harmony and creativity, so that little by little they are more accepted by the population.

    9. The phone’s extreme portability allowed me to fit Tolstoy’s book into my life, and thus to get swept up in it. And it was being swept up that, ironically, made the phone’s distractions melt away.

      When you bring a book to every place, it becomes your life partner and in the end you are so excited to continue reading that the other distractions that the phone offers pass into the background

    10. Books that size (or even smaller, in “duodecimo”) could be easily pocketed or held in one hand; it was for people on the go, tucking reading into their day. Their ultraportable ergonomics were part of their appeal.

      Based on my personal experience, I believe that this sentence is totally true since I was reading a book of 3000 pages but I could only read it at home because it was so heavy that I did not take it anywhere with me.

    11. hen he goes back to the drawing-rooms of Russia, he expertly dismantles and lampoons the pretensions of armchair warriors, the chickenhawks who call for war while never risking their own necks

      When the author has lived in first person all that he says and has these experiences, generates a greater attraction in the reader, as these experiences give greater authority that makes everything more real and are not just simple words

    12. I also had to turn off my internal alerts. This is harder to do, and more crucial. We typically assume that outside interruptions — digital beeps and boops — are chiefly what wreck our focus. But as science-of-attention researchers like Gloria Marks have found, the bigger problem is self-interruption. We’re deeply social creatures.

      We are social creatures that live with a continuous social interaction and that communication with others is a fundamental part that determines our development. So everything social is often distracting.

    13. This time, I wanted to avoid that fate. And the phone, I figured, would be my instrument of success. The downside of a phone is that it’s a teensy portal into a book; the upside is it’s always with you.

      This sentence corresponds a clear advantage of the phone. He is always with us so at any time, a bit of boredom I can get him out and continue reading the book. Instead a paper book can take you with you or not. The phone we always take you to all places

    14. Studies by the Pew Research Center suggest that book readers read paper much more often than digital, and these days, the number of independent bookstores is actually growing.

      The old school of textbooks is still developing and I am personally very proud of it. I think that many of the people who read paper books and are not from the last generations, are the ones who continue to promote this. Since many of them do not have technological knowledge, discomfort or sight problems among others.

    15. Still, it makes you wonder about the future. I’m generally a giddy optimist about digital technologies; I think they’ve given us delightful new ways to make sense of the world and talk to each other. But I’m also an old-school fan of book reading.

      I consider to the same as the author that the new technologies have offered us many facilities in many aspects. But we must continue to consume paper books. You have to find that balance in the future.

    16. Phones are twitchy hives of activity, speeding us up and yanking us in all directions. Paper books, in contrast, calm us and slow us down

      I believe that this statement is true, the phones have a number of social apps and a multitude of instruments that distract us. On the other hand, when you have a paper book in your hand, the only thing you have is that book, nothing else to use or distract you.