Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr is an article that is questioning the effect that technology is having on our brains. There are advantages to having any information available to us. However‚ there are imperative disadvantages as well. The longer we use the Internet‚ the more expected it is that we will be unable to concentrate on extensive pieces of writing. As a result of our recent lack of focus‚ we often skim what we do read; therefore the creators of Google are attempting to adapt
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In the article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. He talks about the influence the Internet has on people. How easy it is with the click of a button and you can get thousands of results. This is the power of Google. It’s having effects on the brain but not quite like you would want it to. As a writer Carr would spend time reading lengthy articles. It was easy for him to do. He says that it’s not the case anymore. His concentration starts to bored after two or three pages of reading
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2/21/13 Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Stephen Marche - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/308930/ 1/8 Print | Close • SUBSCRIBE • RENEW • GIVE A GIFT • DIGITAL EDITION Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? SOCIAL MEDIA—FROM FACEBOOK TO TWITTER—HAVE MADE US MORE DENSELY NETWORKED THAN EVER. YET FOR ALL THIS CONNECTIVITY‚ NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT WE HAVE NEVER BEEN LONELIER (OR MORE NARCISSISTIC)—AND THAT THIS LONELINESS IS MAKING US MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY
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“Dave‚ stop. Stop‚ will you? Stop‚ Dave. Will you stop‚ Dave?” This essay‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr‚ starts by quoting‚ and then talks about a scene from a popular science fiction movie‚ which is not only a good hook‚ but also leads straight into his topic about the issues of technology‚ though he quickly turns to jargon and larger words‚ making it harder to read the essay‚ which is irony as the topic is about how it’s becoming harder to read in bigger chunks. He explains that
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deeply how people learn. The invention of the computer as well as the Internet has‚ in many ways‚ offered new ways of learning. Today‚ children can learn by surfing the Internet and more particularly by “googling” the information needed. Google has succeeded in making the Internet a far more efficient informational medium. Google’s search engine has been engineered to produce better results as the web grows and thereby offer children information needed for their education or for their personal leisure
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In "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Nicholas Carr argues his deep concern on the use of the Internet and how it is affecting our brains. Carr feels like he has built upon the habit of skimming through articles for research. As a frequent user he has built such a strong habit of this that he can now no longer have the patience to sit down and read an actual book. For it lacks the instant gratification he is so used to getting from the Internet: "What the net seems to be doing is chipping away from my
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in their lives. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he explains to us how the Internet affects our brains in a negative way. Some people disagree with Carr and say that the Internet is just a resource that we use in our everyday lives and it does not affect us negatively. Even though the internet has many positive aspects‚ the internet affects us more negatively in our everyday life. The Internet is making it harder for us to concentrate and become engrossed in the information
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library and looking it up in an encyclopedia as what his or her parents would have done‚ he or she will pull out his or her smartphone and “google” it. Thanks to Google and all other commercial Internet companies‚ we are closer to all kinds of information‚ both useful and useless‚ than any other time in human history. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ he admits how the immediate access to the rich store of online information is benefiting him largely as a writer (Carr‚ 589). While
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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
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Through the short story‚ Is Google Making Us Stupid‚ the author‚ Nicholas Carr suggests that the Internet affects how human beings process literary works. He begins to illustrate this point by using a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where the man purposely disassembles HAL‚ the supercomputer‚ in order to disconnect its ability to think for itself. Carr personifies HAL‚ and describes how it could feel its brain being taken away as the man stripped it of its memory circuits. Carr
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