26 September 2013 Is Google Actually Making Us Stupid? Is Google‚ with all of its information at the tip of our fingers actually making us dumber than we are? On July 1st 2008 an article was written by Nicholas Carr titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and this article was taken differently by many people. He talks about how he has problems reading ever since he discovered Google. Carr states “my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety‚ lose the thread‚ begin
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr asks this question in his Article published in The Atlantic Magazine and poses the readers to give it some thought. Carr is of the opinion that the internet is changing the way people think and how their minds work; hence he argues that this has a negative effect on the mind of people. Carr suggests that‚ people’s intellectual lives are becoming like a piece of work in industrial manufacturing that are built for maximum speed and efficiency (Carr n.p.).
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will be. When students have computers or any device that can access the internet there is a high rate that they will be distracted by what they can look up. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (Nicholas Carr) “If we’re distracted‚ we understand less‚ remember less‚ and learn less.” When being distracted by google or any other website it is not to the benefit of the MMMS(Marlboro Memorial Middle School) students. If the students look up anything they are not suppose to they are getting distracted
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Is Google making us stupid‚ is asked. Well many do believe so. And even though Google has been thought to make us stupid in a sense. It has also benefited us tremendously. We are provided with a searching mechanism where pretty much anything can be explored in the matter of a click or two. For instance‚ your research paper can be done much faster simply because Google provides you with all the necessary information. You can have an article in the length of a two pages minimized down to a couple of
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In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. Carr speaks on how over the last decade his focus and ability to concentrate has been declining due to the fact that he has a plethora of knowledge available to him on his smartphone or computer‚ thus he is not able to focus on a task at hand for as long as he could before the age of information. Carr claims that his mind is changing for the worse and backs his evidence with first hand accounts of respected scholars who also share the same
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“What really makes us intelligent isn’t our ability to find lots of information quickly. It’s our ability to think deeply about that information.” (Is Google Making Us Stupid?) There are very many risks to technology. This is unfortunate because technology rates are growing rapidly. Some risks to technology include causing distractions‚ and causing addiction. (Source 2) To begin with‚ a risk of technology is causing distractions. “If we’re distracted we understand less‚ remember less‚ and learn
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The internet helps us connect with friends‚ family‚ and people around all around the world. Without it‚ we could never reach out to friends or family in other states. People around the world would be less socially diverse
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Major Paper II Rhetorical Analysis: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way that we think and that it diffuses our focus and our ability to comprehend information. Throughout his article‚ he makes use of Ethos‚ Pathos‚ and Logos to persuade the reader to his point of view on the Internet in a negative way. One way Nicholas Carr persuades the reader by using Ethos is that he mentions a person who is well versed in the
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search engines‚ particularly Google‚ a researcher can virtually search anything that he or she need to know within a minute’s time. Given that‚ Is Google making us humans stupid? According to some‚ the use of Google is making us lazy‚ stupid‚ incompetent people that do not digest the knowledge the way we did years ago when long and strenuous hours were spent basking in the library’s atmosphere soaking up all the information we could‚ one page at a time. While Google has drastically changed the way
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Ronghao Tang English 101 Badge Quoting In his article: Is Google Making Us Stupid‚ the author Nicholas Carr describes how Internet searching influences he and his friends. He states that he became to lose “concentration” on books and long-articles. Therefore‚ he raises a view that we need to care about the Web information‚ although it makes human life more convenient. He wrote: “The Web [had] been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of
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