In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” published in The Atlantic Magazine‚ Nicholas Carr begins by talking of a national issue. Our concentration levels are diminishing. Carr uses the title to point out google as the perpetrator‚ but he refers to the web as a whole. He used to be able to read for hours. However‚ he struggles with reading a few pages now. Carr says that our brains are being programmed to learn the answer and shut down. You no longer submerge yourself into knowledge. You simply
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Some might have said that Google invent new innovative ways to learn. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr’s that the internet is a threat to our brains‚ but there is no evidence of such cause. I found that the internet is a tool when it comes to reading‚ studying‚ and anything that I am able to find on the internet. We are in a world that enable us to learn much than in a book could which might lead to believe that technology can improve teaching and learning‚ but there still some continue
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In Nicholas Carr’s piece‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid”‚ he makes an argument many people might not ever consider. He claims that the internet has actually affected how human beings process information. He begins to illustrate this point using a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where HAL‚ the supercomputer‚ is being disassembled by the man the machine nearly (purposefully) killed. Carr emphasizes the fact that the computer could “feel” its’ “brain” being taken away as the man stripped
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Nicholas Carr‚ author of the article “Is Google making Us Stupid‚” argues that the internet is become our main source of information‚ and the internet is change the way we read and write. He also argues that one day we will be taken over by the world of technology (Carr 3). Carr gives his examples by stating a personal experience‚ anecdote stories about his friends and collogues‚ he even gives facts straight from the people who work at Google‚ and he even uses an analogy to give an example of what
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The Internet Takeover The piece‚ “Is Google Making us Stupid?”‚ by Nicholas Carr provides an interesting view from a writer’s perspective of his change in processing information due to the growing digital world. He reflects on how the internet has made his life easier but also caused his attention span to shorten. He believes that while the internet is very helpful‚ it is changing the way people think. Carr relates his struggles to those of many of his intellectual colleagues and how it has changed
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surroundings. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “The Deepening Page” by Nicholas Carr the author explains the rise in value of undistracted reading and the how technology took away that skill but brought us closer to our primal way of thinking. Reading is an abnormal skill that takes training and practice. It is not something humans are born knowing how to do. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Carr states
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In his essay “Is google making us stupid” Nicholas Carr explains how the internet has helped us to gather vast amounts of information very quick‚ but also how it has affected our attention span when the time comes to read long pieces of texts. Carr also feels that our brains are constantly getting rewired due to the amount of time we spend online has caused him to lose concentration when he is reading. Besides‚ make it easier to find information and rewiring our brains the internet has changed the
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controversial; no one really knows how technology is going to affect us in the future. Google an internet giant‚ directs the user to any information he/she is looking for. The sole purpose of Google is to make knowledge accessible to everyone. On the other hand‚ many people believe that we are starting to rely heavily on Google. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr‚ he states his fear of the Internet and explains how Google has already started to change his mind in the way he retains
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In Is Google Making Us Stupid?‚ Nicholas Carr argues that people are more interested in instant gratification when they take in information than they are in critically thinking about it. He states that people adapt very quickly to new technologies and incorporate aspects of said technologies into their perception of the world‚ so inventions such as the computer‚ which are developed for the purpose of fast rapid information transfer‚ influence the rate at which people evaluate information. It is more
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is it making us lazier‚ or is it increasing our productivity throughout our lives. In today’s world‚ we rely heavily on the internet for day to day uses and it has become something of a crutch for humans. From things such as looking up how to get to the nearest Sub-way‚ to ordering and purchasing items online‚ the internet has done nearly everything to make our lives easier. In a way the internet could be making us lazy as people. Alternatively‚ there’s the argument that the internet is making us more
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