Many are still quoting from Nicholas Carr’s 2008 Atlantic article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Here in The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains‚ he elaborates to illustrate precisely how the Internet changes our lives. Along the way‚ Carr’s highly entertaining book reminds us of how the great thinkers of past centuries did just fine without a hyperlinked database of all the world’s knowledge at hand. In the 21st century‚ we are facing the consequences of our distracted and scattered
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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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internet has made us smarter than ever before‚ but has it also made us dumber? Author Nicholas Carr see’s the internet as a doubled bladed sword. It has its negatives and positives on society. Is society truly better with the internet? These are just some of the multiple questions Carr asks. His main point is how technology makes information quicker to obtain however at the price of our attention spans. Nicholas Carr‚ writer for the New York Times and the Wall street Journal‚ Believed that Google
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The statement says that Nicholas Carr thinks that technology’s power is alienation. His words are “the toll can be practically high with our intellectual technologies. The tools of the mind amplify and turn numb the most intimate‚ the most human‚ of our natural capacities – those for reasons‚ perception‚ memory‚ emotion. (Carr‚ 211) He says that by using tech so much we eventually go numb to everything around us‚ is that the truth? Well at this point in time all there was‚ was the ability to observe
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have gotten used to it. In Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows”‚ Carr noticed a change in his own ability to concentrate. "I’d sit down with a book‚ or a long article‚" He told NPR‚ "and after a couple of pages my brain wanted to do what it does when I’m online: check email‚ click this chronic state of distraction "follows us" he argued‚ long after we shut down our computers”. "Neuroscientists and psychologists have discovered that‚ even as adults‚ our brains are very plastic‚" Carr explains. "Technology is
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Nicholas Carr vs. Steven Pinker There is no doubt about it that in today’s generation the Internet is one of the best phenomenal creations invented. By simply having a computer‚ cell phone‚ tablet‚ ect‚ anyone and everyone can access the Internet. But can this powerful yet simple creation have a drastic effect on how the new generation operates today? The entire world is rapidly becoming obsessed; everywhere you look you’re bound to see something related to the Internet. Search engines‚ texting
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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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aware of your 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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1- Reflection on the article of Carr In May 2003‚ Harvard Business Review (HBR)‚ a magazine mainly addressed to business people in general such as managers‚ analysts and strategists etc.‚ and IT constituencies in particular such as vendors‚ researchers‚ engineers etc.‚ published a revolutionary article written by Nicholas Carr entitled “IT doesn’t Matter”. This article has created a huge debate within the IT industry‚ from opponents and proponents the opinions differ considerably. So in order
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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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