In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. He talks about the influence the Internet has on people. How easy it is with the click of a button and you can get thousands of results. This is the power of Google. It’s having effects on the brain but not quite like you would want it to.…
In his article “Is Google Making us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr, a Dartmouth and Harvard graduate, and member of encyclopedia Britannica’s editorial board of advisors, poses the argument that the constant use of sources such as Google can reshape the thought process in a negative way. He has found the loss of ability to read for prolonged amounts of time without getting distracted. He is also having a hard time retaining the information he is reading. This made him pose the question of what has caused such a change? The answer that came to him was that it had to be related to the amount of Internet reading, watching, and writing he did. He wasn’t having these…
In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr explains his point of view of how the brain is being reprogramed due to technology. He states that the Internet changes how we receive and process information and that surfing the web takes almost no concentration and that is why we lose focus easily. Carr gives his experiences as an example in how he is no longer able to keep concentration to even complete reading an article. His main point is that search engines, like Google, and the internet in general is damaging our ability to think, and that we were probably better in the past when reading was done…
Is Google, with all of its information at the tip of our fingers actually making us dumber than we are? On July 1st 2008 an article was written by Nicholas Carr titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and this article was taken differently by many people. He talks about how he has problems reading ever since he discovered Google. Carr states “my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do” (2) and he blames Google is the problem. He believes the constant multi-tasking and skimming over articles on the internet has hindered the way we read. Steven Johnson however will somewhat disagree with the article and writes his own article title “Yes, People Still Read, But Now Its Social.” Mr.…
In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. Carr speaks on how over the last decade his focus and ability to concentrate has been declining due to the fact that he has a plethora of knowledge available to him on his smartphone or computer, thus he is not able to focus on a task at hand for as long as he could before the age of information. Carr claims that his mind is changing for the worse and backs his evidence with first hand accounts of respected scholars who also share the same fate as he does. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is an article that delves deep into the age of information and can explain why it is much easier for people to procrastinate today than it was a decade ago.…
A graduate of Harvard University, Nicholas Carr’s essay, published in Altantic in 2008, expresses his opinion about the effects google has on our b rains. Carr’s writings about technology made appearances in the New York Times Magaz ine, Wired, the Financial Times and Diee Ziet. The intended audience for his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is general and it’s about if google is effecting our abilities and the way we think. Nicholas Carr uses narration, explanation and cause / effect modes to exp lain to readers about how using the internet has changed our abilities, inform us on the changes of our t hought process and the effects it has on our brain. Carr opens the article with a poignant scene from Stanl ey Kubrick’s A Space…
In his essay “Is google making us stupid” Nicholas Carr explains how the internet has helped us to gather vast amounts of information very quick, but also how it has affected our attention span when the time comes to read long pieces of texts. Carr also feels that our brains are constantly getting rewired due to the amount of time we spend online has caused him to lose concentration when he is reading. Besides, make it easier to find information and rewiring our brains the internet has changed the way we comprehend what we are reading. Carr states that before the internet he could easily get caught in the argument of what he was reading and that he no longer does it because his concentration starts to drift away after reading a couple of pages.…
The general argument made by Nicholas Carr in his work, “From The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” is that technology is dangerous to the brain, conditioning the body that they need more technology, and less of anything else. More Specifically, Carr states that, “I used to find it easy to immerse myself in a book or a lengthy article...Now my consideration starts to drift after a page or two” (Carr par. 2). In this passage, Carr is suggesting that the effects of technology and the internet have imposed on him that he needs the internet to function at a proper level. He thinks that this is going to be a problem in the future of society. He is suggesting that we will be unable to communicate…
The piece, “Is Google Making us Stupid?”, by Nicholas Carr provides an interesting view from a writer's perspective of his change in processing information due to the growing digital world. He reflects on how the internet has made his life easier but also caused his attention span to shorten. He believes that while the internet is very helpful, it is changing the way people think. Carr relates his struggles to those of many of his intellectual colleagues and how it has changed their lives as fellow consumers of text. He explores the changes within the mind and the way that, in turn, it has changed a person's response to reading. To further his explanations, he uses in depth descriptions of various technologies and their…
In the essays “How Computers Change the Way We Think” and “Is Google Making Us Stupid” both authors address the issue that throughout the years technology has changed the way we think and process information. In Nicholas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid" he describes how the internet shapes the way we process material when reading. Before people use to take their time and read and analyze text, but now we skim through it. While reading, people most of the time rush through it to get the gist of it. I occasionally find myself running through pages of a psychology book to get the answer to a question as fast as possible. In Sherry Turkle's "How Computers Change the Way We Think" she lists different topics and how the computer effects each of them. For example, privacy was sheltered in the past where now it has become open. We now have twitter and facebook for the whole…
Every day, people around the globe intentionally spend time having their intelligence stripped away by a black hole, a black hole that is known as Google. According to dictionary.com the definition of intelligence is the capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity (“intelligence”). With the increase of technology more and more people rely on Google to obtain answers instead of exercising their own capacity for mental activity. What most people don’t know is the adverse affects Google is having on their intelligence. When people spend a copious amount of time on Google their intelligence is decreased. Google decreases human intelligence because spending time on Google shortens human attention spans and…
They blame the application for affecting their mind. According to them, search engines like Google are to blame for the newly acquired short attention people experience while reading as they cannot read long passages with complete attention like before. Such inattentiveness prevents readers from reading books and articles or reflecting on the information provided. For example, the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” published in The Atlantic by Nicholas Carr blames Google for the changes in mental and comprehension abilities of most people. Carr describes his challenge of reading books like before and writes “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet Ski” (Carr, 2008). He argues that the internet inhibits his…
Nicholas Carr provides an interesting question to his readers. He follows this question with various different viewpoints of different authors and professors. By doing this, he makes the reader do the exact opposite of what he says is done nowadays. We, as the readers, are forced to take a minute and think about the point of the article instead of just skimming over it. This is why his point is effective. He makes us go the extra mile in order to come up with an answer to his question. Google is making us stupid in a way. Along…
In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” in the magazine The Atlantic, the author, Nicholas Carr, recounts his difficulties with concentration while reading lengthy articles and books. Carr claims that these difficulties may be caused by an increase in the time he spends on the internet. His principle argument is that the internet provides us with a means of rapidly accessing information that we are searching for and this causes our minds to be used to obtaining information in such a swift manner – this is proof that, contrary to his opinion, Google is making us smart.…
The human brain is already a type of computer, but according to Bill out’s opinion “The Human brain is an outdated computer” now that google has artificial intelligence, humans will start to rely on the internet for all of their information and knowledge. We have become reliant on technology to teach us, and even think for us. Eventually the thinking process will be eliminated because humans will just google it. The biggest part of being human is our intelligence. The internet is effecting just that. We now rely so much on computers and other electronic devices to think for us. What happened to the good old days where people would read long books and appreciate deep conversations? In public people are always on the internet on their phones or tablets. On social media or taking funny pictures. Not paying attention to the world around them. The internet sucks people in and makes it difficult to get off. It’s sad that people would sit on their phone all day, when they could be enjoying life. It will be interesting to see how this changes the way people…