Samantha Hammack Dr. Turner English 111-011 24 October 2012 Rhetorical Analysis of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas G. Carr has written an abundance of articles about technology. Some of his work includes: Does It Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage‚ and The Big Switch: Rewiring the World‚ From Edison to Google. One of Carr’s achievements‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid‚” smoothly persuades the reader to believe that the Internet is taking over the human mind
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ENG 110 Is Google Making Us Stupid? “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is an article written by Nicholas Carr‚ which was published in The Atlantic in July 2008. Throughout his article‚ Carr discusses how people are beginning to rely on the internet as their primary source of information. He also states that the internet is negatively affecting the way we read and write‚ and is also having an effect on the way we process information. With the help of his fellow writers and personal research‚ he makes
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“Is Google Making Us Stupid” In “Is Google Making Us Stupid‚” Nicholas Carr discusses over the question about the cause and effect of how Internet impacts our thinking‚ reading‚ writing habits‚ and how our brains react to adapt to the “new-media rule”. The author uses many specific examples and statistics to demonstrate his point of view. Throughout the first part of the article‚ Nicholas Carr argues whether our reading and writing habits may be affected by the search engines on Google. We used
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Christina Robinson ENG 101 College Compositions 1 Professor Roberto C. Garcia Is Google Making Us Stupid? Feb. 18‚ 2014 Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr narrated his essay based on a thesis‚ by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001movie: A Space Odyssey. A character named Bowman‚ whom has been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine‚ is calmly‚ coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “brain.” The
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr Adapted from The Atlantic Monthly July 2008 “Dave‚ stop. Stop Dave. Will you stop‚ Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001:A Space Odyssey. Dave Bowman‚ having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine‚ is calmly‚ coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial brain. “Dave‚ my brain is going‚” HAL says forlornly. “I can
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Google‚ the search engine that majority of people see when opening up the internet. The website that delivers information for almost any subject imaginable. Think about it‚ when you have a hard time figuring something out or a question with no answer where do you run to. Most people click open Google on their electronic device without using their brain to think about it. It is more convenient then just popping open a text book or waiting for someone to explain an answer to you. It becomes more of
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In his article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid‚” Nicholas Carr‚ a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and a member of the steering board for the World Economic Forum’s cloud computing project‚ criticizes the overall impact of the internet‚ as a whole‚ on the human process of thought‚ comparing his past level of conception to “a scuba diver in a sea of words” whereas his current understanding simply “zip[s] along the surface” (Carr 68). Carr targets the prominent internet search engine
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and use an app called Instagram to advertise my product as well; I also found that a copy machine is my best friend because I make copies of all transactions‚ and I make copies of all business related emails for my record to ensure that I’m not making any mistakes when processing orders. My GPS used to be handy for me when I would make deliveries‚ but it started getting
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Cody Miller Collins English 1105 30 October 2014 Is Google Making Us Stupid? Today‚ the Internet has become a big part of our lives. We rely deeply on it to obtain information‚ but it makes it harder for us to retain information. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr uses allusion‚ metaphor‚ and an appeal to logos in order to explain that the Internet is making society less smart and more reliant on technology. Carr uses various allusions in order to give the reader a better understanding
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In this article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ Nicholas Carr discusses the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence as the main source of knowledge. Artificial intelligence has the ability to condense one’s life into the cyber world‚ most time of a phone or computer: “It’s becoming our map and our radio and T.V” (Carr‚ 3). Giving that much control and information about one’s life into such a system that is insecure and easily accessible can be very
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