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Christain C. + Kay L. Carr presentation Mary H. April, 13 2011 In 1936 a British Mathematician Alan Turing took a look around him at the advancing electronic system and came to the conclusion that one day we would be relying on a device that would replace all others. Although in 1936 it was just a “theoretical” deceive it has quickly become reality. In proving him correct the computer/electronic moguls via internet and intelligent cellphones have taken an array of simple devices and turned them into one all-encompassing super-advanced thinking machine that were initially designed to simplify our everyday life. The unfortunate setback of this is that our attention span and the way we receive information is being drastically and permanently changed forever. Instead of completing a task from start to finish we now feel the need to distract ourselves, even from the things we are trying to focus on. While writing essays for an English class we now find ourselves reaching for our cellphones to check for messages or flipping over to the next tab and changing our Pandora search subject.