Review Of Andrew Sullivan's Article 'Is Google Making USupid?'
Gregorio Villalba
Management of Information Systems
Critical Journal Article Review
June 22, 2014
Con - Is Google Making Us Stupid? In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr explains his point of view of how the brain is being reprogramed due to technology. He states that the Internet changes how we receive and process information and that surfing the web takes almost no concentration and that is why we lose focus easily. Carr gives his experiences as an example in how he is no longer able to keep concentration to even complete reading an article. His main point is that search engines, like Google, and the internet in general is damaging our ability to think, and that we were probably better in the past when reading was done …show more content…
He says that in the past he used to keep stacks of papers in order to complete a research or write an article. Also, he highlighted the importance of him having a good memory just to try to remember where al the relevant information was and that he spent countless and useless time reading irrelevant information. He says now all he has to do is right-click and type a few words and all the information he wants he can get it instantly. Sullivan states that he does hundreds of blog posts a week and that now he is better shape than before because he is instantly informed. He also points out that the way he thinks has changed. He is able to process information faster and absorb multiple resources of information simultaneously. He also points out the issue of multitasking in how he gets distracted by all the resources available through the Internet. He says that we might be loosing some type of focus on how we used to read books before but that everything is due to the overwhelming resources available to us and that we will eventually adapt and learn to be more efficient with manipulating information
Management of Information Systems
Critical Journal Article Review
June 22, 2014
Con - Is Google Making Us Stupid? In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr explains his point of view of how the brain is being reprogramed due to technology. He states that the Internet changes how we receive and process information and that surfing the web takes almost no concentration and that is why we lose focus easily. Carr gives his experiences as an example in how he is no longer able to keep concentration to even complete reading an article. His main point is that search engines, like Google, and the internet in general is damaging our ability to think, and that we were probably better in the past when reading was done …show more content…
He says that in the past he used to keep stacks of papers in order to complete a research or write an article. Also, he highlighted the importance of him having a good memory just to try to remember where al the relevant information was and that he spent countless and useless time reading irrelevant information. He says now all he has to do is right-click and type a few words and all the information he wants he can get it instantly. Sullivan states that he does hundreds of blog posts a week and that now he is better shape than before because he is instantly informed. He also points out that the way he thinks has changed. He is able to process information faster and absorb multiple resources of information simultaneously. He also points out the issue of multitasking in how he gets distracted by all the resources available through the Internet. He says that we might be loosing some type of focus on how we used to read books before but that everything is due to the overwhelming resources available to us and that we will eventually adapt and learn to be more efficient with manipulating information