In this article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ Nicholas Carr discusses the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence as the main source of knowledge. Artificial intelligence has the ability to condense one’s life into the cyber world‚ most time of a phone or computer: “It’s becoming our map and our radio and T.V” (Carr‚ 3). Giving that much control and information about one’s life into such a system that is insecure and easily accessible can be very
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Michelle Huynh English 4 Professor Polster April 22‚ 2015 “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains‚” the author Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet has detrimental effects by altering the way we comprehend and the way our brain functions. Carr’s mind is changing because he is not thinking the way he used to think. He used to love reading books and articles‚ but now he can barely get through two or three pages because his
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Tiara Irvin Dr. Fletcher 09 June 2014 Rhetorical Response: “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” In Stephen Marche’s article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” (2013) Marche suggests that over time‚ loneliness is becoming more prominent in today’s society. Marche develops his claim by using many published research and scholarly articles. In order to make readers aware of this growing epidemic‚ Marche’s purpose is to show that by using Facebook people are becoming more isolated. The target audience for
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“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In the article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid” in the magazine The Atlantic‚ the author‚ Nicholas Carr‚ recounts his difficulties with concentration while reading lengthy articles and books. Carr claims that these difficulties may be caused by an increase in the time he spends on the internet. His principle argument is that the internet provides us with a means of rapidly accessing information that we are searching for and this causes our minds to be used to obtaining
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information that is needed to be available at the click of a button. Some people think Google is the best thing since sliced bread‚ but Nicholas Carr has another opinion. Personally‚ Carr thinks it could be dangerous to our minds having so much technology at our fingertips. If we go back to the early days‚ when the Internet was not available‚ people had to research deeper than they do now. They spent hours and hours in a library‚ searching through books and newspapers. As time progressed‚ society
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? The article written by Nicholas Carr criticizes the Internet’s (not just Google’s) effects on our cognition. It points out the problem of lower concentration and contemplation and the problem of decreased focus on long pieces of writing or reading. It also states that according to the research users are not reading in traditional sense online. Even though I am highly aware of negative effects of Internet‚ there are still many advantages that Internet and Google brought
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Christina Robinson ENG 101 College Compositions 1 Professor Roberto C. Garcia Is Google Making Us Stupid? Feb. 18‚ 2014 Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr narrated his essay based on a thesis‚ by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001movie: A Space Odyssey. A character named Bowman‚ whom has been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine‚ is calmly‚ coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “brain.” The
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answering questions‚ translating‚ playing … etc. What people don’t realize when using the internet is that they become addicted to easy ways to get information. The brain is affected with jumping from one page to another. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ Carr declared that the internet change the way people think (Carr 500). He also wrote that the internet reduces a person ’s ability of concentration and deep thinking (501). Spending little time to gain information reduces the ability of
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Google‚ the search engine that majority of people see when opening up the internet. The website that delivers information for almost any subject imaginable. Think about it‚ when you have a hard time figuring something out or a question with no answer where do you run to. Most people click open Google on their electronic device without using their brain to think about it. It is more convenient then just popping open a text book or waiting for someone to explain an answer to you. It becomes more of
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(Is Google making us stupid?) The internet is where we get our most valuable information‚ we can get that information very easily and fast. Technology is referring to social media and search engines. Though others might say that technology risks our healt h and distracts us‚ technology is beneficial to both the mind and the body. The reason technology is beneficial is because‚ it gives people support‚ technology transforms people’s lives‚ and it develops your brain. To begin‚ technology and social
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