"Is Google Making us Stupid?"
Technology plays a huge role in today’s society. Everywhere you look people are always texting, gaming, listening to music and browsing. On the flip side, technology has also helped improve ways of living through research, curing diseases and even communicate with others across the world. Nicholas Carr believes Google does in fact make us stupid, he does have a slight point on the matter, but not to what we all may expect to hear.
It seemed a bit ironic that Carr was going on and on about how his “concentration started to drift after two or three pages” when this article is seven pages long. I found myself also to be “fidgety, begin looking for something else to do” also starting to scan. This is a point I want to bring up. I believe that most people blame technology for what we are becoming. Carr mentioned that “deep reading used to come natural has become a struggle,” meaning technology in a way has been “making us stupid.” Maybe not in the sense as many might think.
The internet has many useful websites, recipes, information that you can find in one place: Google. The “advantages,” as Carr said, of having “immediate access to such an incredible rich store of information had been fully applauded.” I personally love having fast access to the internet to find what I need, like most of you as well. However, we choose to use these resources. We elect to have Google help us, therefore making us rely on it. Those are the key words here. As Theorist Marshall McLuhan put it, “media are not just passive channels of information.” “They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.” Meaning, they supply the material, but since we rely on all this information given to us, it shapes us to need it and not think on our own.
The world as we know it is changing so fast we can’t comprehend it. Carr believes. "You should be skeptical of my skepticism,” that we should be careful in what we do. We all do need to think on our own and use the
It seemed a bit ironic that Carr was going on and on about how his “concentration started to drift after two or three pages” when this article is seven pages long. I found myself also to be “fidgety, begin looking for something else to do” also starting to scan. This is a point I want to bring up. I believe that most people blame technology for what we are becoming. Carr mentioned that “deep reading used to come natural has become a struggle,” meaning technology in a way has been “making us stupid.” Maybe not in the sense as many might think.
The internet has many useful websites, recipes, information that you can find in one place: Google. The “advantages,” as Carr said, of having “immediate access to such an incredible rich store of information had been fully applauded.” I personally love having fast access to the internet to find what I need, like most of you as well. However, we choose to use these resources. We elect to have Google help us, therefore making us rely on it. Those are the key words here. As Theorist Marshall McLuhan put it, “media are not just passive channels of information.” “They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.” Meaning, they supply the material, but since we rely on all this information given to us, it shapes us to need it and not think on our own.
The world as we know it is changing so fast we can’t comprehend it. Carr believes. "You should be skeptical of my skepticism,” that we should be careful in what we do. We all do need to think on our own and use the