Technology can change the way humans live in daily lives‚ the way we learn and the way we use our faculties of attention. In the articles‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet is doing to our brains” and “Is Google wrecking our memory?” Nicholas Carr and Clive Thompson discusses that humans being are taking over by the use of technology and is affected major parts of our social lives. Carr argues that internet is just a set for people to make money‚ and how our critical thinking skills
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possible misdiagnosis of ADHD‚ prioritizing convergent thinking‚ and having an increase of standardized testing. The work throughout the week wasn’t particularly surprising. However‚ one that was rather thought provoking was the article Is Google Making Us Stupid? This was a subject matter that I’ve never been able to place into words. I knew that my capacity to read full-fledged articles had periodically decreased over time. It only took the reference to Hal-9000 for me to understand that our brains
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Homework # 3 – Google Google’s core business is search. The majority of their business decisions revolve around optimizing‚ monetizing‚ and improving the search engine. They have perfected their search technology to such extent that hundreds of thousands of companies have purchased their technology in order to deliver relevant information to their users. Another way Google has made the search profitable is through their creation of advertising technology. They are the most visited search engine
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Techno Smart or Techno Not so Smart Society has become very dependent when it comes to technology resources. In the articles “Is Google making us Stupid?” by author Nicholas Carr and “Mind Over Mass Media” by author Steven Pinker‚ both authors express their views on technology and how it is affecting today’s society. In most cases the first thing most people do is grab a computer‚ smartphone or tablet to search up pretty much anything. It can be anything from researching an address‚ telephone
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Summarization I Not Stupid Too is a story about the struggle of sibling‚ Tom and Jerry and their friend Chengchai with their conflicts involving adults around them. Tom and Jerry lived with their parents‚ grandmother and a maid. Even though they are wealthy and brought up well but as their parent is working and always busy with work they seldom spend time with their kids and just communicate through a note on the fridge. if the parent had a chance to meet them‚ only to nag them about their studies
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Convenience or Knowledge While Google can be convenient if you need a quick answer or need to find information at a moment’s notice. ‚ People should not be using google as an easy way out to answer questions because the students knowing this can also use this search engine to cheat on test so they can avoid retaining information. The students of today also do not have a sense of working for their own academic goals‚ and this is a problem because the students of this generation do not have to think
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The article “Is Facebook Making us Lonely?” is about how various authors in different fields have done research on social media to determine if it is Facebook that make us lonely or whether people that use it is lonely in general. Finsterbusch (2016‚ p. 14) say that being lonely may not mean what the actual definition of it suggests. One‚ people can be lonely by not having many friends to interact with to tell them personal things. Two‚ people can become lonely by just reading about other people
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Stupid Is as Stupid Does One of the two books I read was Forrest Gump‚ written by Winston Groom. I spent almost two months on it‚ and I found it so interesting and instructive that the simple and easy words could touch my heart. Forrest Gump is a man who has a very low intelligence. Everyone‚ including himself‚ thinks that he is an idiot. The narrator of this book is himself‚ and it is interestingly different to see the world from an “idiot”. Though he might not be so good at dealing with social
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Analysis of Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Analysis of Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” 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. Although‚ the Internet has brought many advantages to the user‚ these advantages could be
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MANAGEMENT : GOOGLE Popularized around the world by multinational company Google‚ this management style called « chaotic » believes that employees perform to their full potential when they are given a free hand. Many modern thinkers believe that chaotic management style allows an employee to work on his idea‚ without the interference of the management‚ and this helps in creating new innovations. They are also of the opinion that chaotic management style will be adopted by a lot of companies in
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