Nicholas Carr is a first gerenration‚well informed author who writes about how the internet is impacting our minds and lives.Since 2003 Carr has been writing critically about the consequences due to this vast creation‚ that is the internet. He has written several books and articles including “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” and "IT Doesn’t Matter". This response essay is to one of Nicholas Carrs articles in particular from The Atlantic called‚ “ Is Google Making Us Stupid
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beginning of time‚ information has always been considered a good thing‚ a means to grow‚ and a way to develop and sustain culture. In the past‚ information had often been considered scarce‚ and truly a privilege to have. Now‚ information is being produced and received at a rapid rate. Humans cannot process as much information as the amount continuously flowing in. We are in a state of information surplus‚ an era of information overload. According to Lehtonen‚ information discrepancy is the “deficit
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advanced and it is only the beginning. As the use of technology has increased dramatically in our everyday life many argue that it can be very useful‚ but others can say that technology only seems to be affecting the way Millennials think and process information. Mark Bauerlein is a prime example of this way of thinking‚ he declares that all of those under 30 years of age‚ also known as the Millennials‚ constitute the dumbest generation of modern history; and technology is the main culprit. Students today
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In Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows‚ he talks about many things‚ including the titular topic of What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. He relates the story of the development of the written word‚ and the book‚ and the computer‚ and then the Internet‚ telling how the advent of each sparked a revolution in our culture‚ and‚ in the case of the internet‚ in the way we think‚ going on to say that “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.” (Carr
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access information in ten seconds that would of taken us days 20 years ago. Technology has been integrated into a majority of schooling systems‚ allowing students to be more successful in their classes. Without the internet‚ student would learn half of what they would learn without them. Knowledge and wisdom is shared across the world wide web‚ and it is visible to every single person. Technology has had a positive effect on students as too much screen time cannot harm them. In Nicholas Carr’s
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The Affect of Google By reading the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr‚ could briefly summarize the main ideas. Google has affected people in many ways and impact their brains work. Nicholas Carr begins by discussing how he feels that the Internet is causing his focus issues‚ in which he cannot keep focus while reading a book. If people grow up with doing multitasking like doing homework and listen to a music‚ they are going to lose some abilities that the normal people have.
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English 121 Assignments 2‚ Close Reading Nick Aitken Nicholas Carr’s essay‚ ‘Is Google making us stupid?’ proposes the idea that the human mind is undergoing another big change. He ponders how the intake and response to information we collect and how we process that information is changing‚ which he leads to question how will it eventually lead to an impact on us as individuals. Irony however is not lost on the author as this work was published on the Internet and does not conform to what he
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written words how Nicholas Carr successfully uses ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos in his writing to show as a society we are selling ourselves short on learning capabilities. According to Nicholas Carr‚ we are all falling into the trap of receiving knowledge without questioning its sources and not being able to think for ourselves. Is having sources like Google making us stupid? As a society we should be able to educate ourselves on our own without answers being spoon-fed to us on demand. Carr begins
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Social-Technical Perspective: A solution for Managing Information Overload In my opinion‚ organizations are likely to find better solutions thru informational overload using technical and social systems. Information overload has an ability to cause negative effects on an organizations performance. Within‚ technical and social systems there are a collection of complex components that solve problems within that system. Knowledge management uses the combination and utilization of technology at every
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Nicholas Carr in The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains (2010) asserts that the internet is the single most powerful mind-altering technology. Carr supports this assertion by giving various‚ significant examples of how people think with the internet today compared to how they thought back then. The writer concludes in order for people to improve skills‚ they will have to cope with the new technology and the way they think. Technology is an expression on human will. “To share know-how
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