1. By: Clive Thompson Published: 2013

2. Divided into nine chapters that focused on the positives and negatives technology has on our lives Used examples, interviews, and personal experience Main topics Cognitive Abilities/Memory Privacy Benefit on societies

3. First topic he introduced Technology is improving our memory Have the ability to document everything we do “Lifeloggers” Their lives have improved Negative effects on our minds Multitasking

4. Need to be careful in todays world because anything can be accessed once put on the web He says if we want technology to keep improving and growing we must be okay with the consequences Uses examples of people who are overly protected of their information Ex: Girls on Facebook will go on for hours a day and post and view everything they want but then delete their pages and do this every time they go on.

5. The way students learn is changing Using blogs and computers in the classroom now Bringing communities and organizations together to stand up for what they believe in Ex: In Shifang, China group of students start a protest by first initiating it through the Internet on a instant messaging site

6. Multitasking References Nicholas Carr and his view on multitasking is an author of an article we read in class “Is Google Making us Stupid? The way students are learning differently Digital Nation Film Privacy “I have nothing to hide”’ Issue of Freedom of Speech Similar issues that we viewed about China and their government control over the internet (Great Firewall)

7. I would recommend this book if you are curious about the positives technology has on our lives and the types of way you can utilize it for the better Very slow in some parts because there were some uninteresting interviews and examples from years ago. Overall gave a lot of useful information