Analysis Of Steven Pinker's Essay 'Is Google Making USupid?'

Nicholas Carr, based on his essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” would disagree with Steven Pinker’s “Mind Over Mass Media.” Pinker believes that technology is the only thing that keeps us smart in a society level by making it easier to be informed about everything, while Carr believes that it affects our critical thinking ability because having access to so much information makes us skim through the reading, so even though we are reading many things, it does not mean we are actually holding on to the information. Nicholas Carr believes that the web is affecting the way we receive information by making us into more of a superficial reader. The web affects the way people take in information because since is so simple to get information, people no longer go in depth when it comes to reading, this negatively affects our critical thinking since technology decreases our attention span. Carr says, “My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” This figurative language in a form of a metaphor compares the difference between the way Carr reads comparing to now. When he says “a scuba diver in the sea of words.” He is referring of how he used to
Pinker believes you are smart as a society and technology helps us maintain our smart. While Carr believes that your intelligence is based on your critical reading, and technology is negatively affecting the way we read. Which one is right? Well both are correct. There are many types of intelligence, you have intelligence as a group, as an individual, linguistic, musical, mathematical, interpersonal, and sports intelligence. The level of intelligence in a person cannot be determined because we all are different, and are smart at different things that others might not