Our world is constantly changing, which means we as people need to change with it in order to keep up. We have so much more technology now than we did before: TVs, smartphones, laptops; and they are changing the way our brains work. Richard Restak states in his essay, Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era, that, “This technology driven change in the brain is the biggest modification in the last 200,000 years…exposure to technology seems to be spurring the current alteration [in our brains]” (Restak 373). Since our brains are becoming more and more consumed with information from all of the technology that is present in our lives, it is causing more diagnoses of ADD/ADHD. Many people find this alarming, and want to find a way to solve this, but the truth of the matter is that people are not going to give up technology. Do you think if you asked a teenager to give up their smartphone because it is too distracting, they would willingly give it to you? Probably not. Because we cannot expect technology to go away anytime soon, we can infer that ADD/ADHD are not going to disappear either. In fact, it is likely to only become more apparent in young people as technology continues to advance and thrive. (Restak 373) Therefore, if people are only going to become more distracted, we should be finding ways to adapt with our developing brains and world.

 

One pattern I noticed is that I mostly use “and” to connect my sentences. Another thing I noticed is that I often will use a word in the beginning of the sentence like “since” or “while” in a way that makes it so I don’t need another transition word in the middle of the sentence, only a comma. That seems to work well for me and I like how it makes the sentences sound. Since I seem to only use one or two ways of doing this, maybe through my edits or in the next essay I write I could try to incorporate different words.