Nicholas Carr's Essay 'Is Google Making USupid?'
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 …show more content…
He also mentions Maryanne Worf, a psychologist at Tuffs University, quote stating, “Reading... is not an instinctive skill for human being” (339). She expresses the importance of teaching our brains the translation of the w ords we see on paper into the words we speak. Carr uses the analogy of Friedrich Nietzsche to he lp the reader better understand the adaptation the brain goes through. As his vision fails, Nie tzsche abilities to focus his eyes on a page while writing became difficult. However when he bought his typewriter and mastered typing, he was able to type with his eyes shut. Carr uses the Nietzsche story to explain to reader that "the brain... has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions" (340).
With his narration and the explanations on how the in ternet can affect our brains, Carr explains the effects of high internet usage.
Since the internet has corrupted the way we think, our w ay of living will change as well.
Carr use the example from Friederick Winslow Taylor of t he Industrial Revolution. For years the growth of technology as advanced and began to replace us in factories. Carr refers to
Carr opens the article with a poignant scene from Stanl ey Kubrick’s A Space …show more content…
He also mentions Maryanne Worf, a psychologist at Tuffs University, quote stating, “Reading... is not an instinctive skill for human being” (339). She expresses the importance of teaching our brains the translation of the w ords we see on paper into the words we speak. Carr uses the analogy of Friedrich Nietzsche to he lp the reader better understand the adaptation the brain goes through. As his vision fails, Nie tzsche abilities to focus his eyes on a page while writing became difficult. However when he bought his typewriter and mastered typing, he was able to type with his eyes shut. Carr uses the Nietzsche story to explain to reader that "the brain... has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions" (340).
With his narration and the explanations on how the in ternet can affect our brains, Carr explains the effects of high internet usage.
Since the internet has corrupted the way we think, our w ay of living will change as well.
Carr use the example from Friederick Winslow Taylor of t he Industrial Revolution. For years the growth of technology as advanced and began to replace us in factories. Carr refers to