Response to "Your Brain on Computers."

After reading this article I think I feel more offended than anything. Being a person who is constantly around computers and technological devices this kind of thing makes me sick. People like Mr. Cambell who constantly are making poor decisions on priorities are now being said to be affected by the technology around them, but somehow the word procrastination was around long before computers and there has been something being blamed for people's procrastination forever. So this guy overlooks something in his email that was really important, did no one ever overlook anything before technology? Like maybe a note to do something, or someone telling them to do it the day before? According to this article probably not...it must be technologies fault. People are always quick to blame something for their lack of self-control (or should I say the lack of wanting any self-control). Also I basically made this entire blogger account and read the article in between matches of Call of Duty and I think it turned out pretty well, so maybe people need to multitask a little better. I think basically everyone I know does their homework while at the very least watching tv and all these people are in college so that has to count for something.

As for the parts about video game players I am glad that someone is finally getting out some positive facts about video game players. I did a report on the positive and negative effects of video games last year and it was difficult finding good facts, since most of the people doing research on the matter were mainly people doing research kids who were bringing guns to school and such. Which is just another way to blame technology for something that has pretty much always been around, violence. I think my favorite comment that someone left on a page about a school shooter who was found to play video games was "What were those violent video games Hitler used to play again? Oh wait he didn't have any. I wonder what people blamed this on before video games." I played the distraction-rectangle-game and got perfect scores on it and I would say it is definitely a result of playing games like Call of Duty, where you are constantly scanning the screen for movement. Anyway I think that is enough ranting for one post.