Internet Impact on Society In “Hal and Me” written by Nicholas Carr, Carr discusses how the Internet is impacting each individual that is using the Internet. Carr took his own intellectual journey in 2007 and realized he was experiencing difficulty in focusing on his work. His main concern was the difficulty he was having particularly on careful and concentrated reading, thinking about that reading, and writing carefully about it. Carr made a conclusion that the Internet itself was impacting his ability to concentrate and something had to change. In “Hal and Me”, Carr uses examples and personal experiences to relate to the positive and negative impacts the Web has on society in general.
Carr begins his essay by saying “I’ve had the uncomfortable feeling that over the past few years someone, or something has been tinkering with [his] brain”(91). He suggests that due to his internet usage he has a more difficult time being able to read and think critically about lengthy readings. He mentions having difficulty analyzing long articles or books and states his friends also complain of similar difficulties. He believes when a person is attempting to read an internet article and it is riddled with ads, pop-ups, and hyperlinks, it is challenging for readers to read such an article without being led or pushed onto different pages and websites. Carr relies heavily on his and his friend’s personal beliefs and fails to reference legitimate studies done in order to determine the causation of shorter attention
The inaccuracies, that academics argue permeate the project and misguide students, are very few and far between. While Wikipedia is available for anyone to contribute, there are some restrictions put in place to regulate the content on each page. In addition to the 75,000 contributors who regulate content from all over the world, Wikipedia has five full time employees who use algorithms to point out falsities and help correct info that is misleading. The more a particular page is visited the less likely mistakes are to go unnoticed. This helps create a 96% factual accuracy rating across all pages.
Google, a revolutionary search engine that has altered the way the world surfs the internet and accesses it's many other pleasantries has been thee "go-to" search engine for nearly a decade. It's popularity has even gained itself an entry into the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb. So why is it that Nicholas Carr, a successful writer and blogger, finds it necessary to publish an article entitled: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". The article is a direct attack at not only Google itself, but the internet and technology as a whole. Carr argues, in reference to Stanley Kubrick's: 2001: A Space Odyssey, "as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence."
Summary of “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr Nicholas Carr argues in, “Is Google Making us Stupid?” that the internet is changing the way we think. The internet looks to be slowly taking away the ability to focus very long, and is becoming the most widely used medium for information. Carr has the feeling that he no longer thinks like he used to. Reading a long book or article is no longer enjoyable to him. He attributes this feeling to the extensive use of the internet and computers, even though this usage of the internet has been to help him write.
The Inception of the internet and World Wide Web has changed how we research and gain knowledge. Before its introduction to society, libraries were utilized to reference scholarly works by previous intellectuals, but now they are used for computer access and social media. Google and Wikipedia have leaded the charge of information services and the fingertips of our culture. While a great resource in conjunction with other academic sources, they are not the best example of accurate and reliable material. Google is by far the worst example of an information supplier, in that, a search on Google can inundate the reader with an outlandish list of results.
Prior to the advent of the internet, committing an accidental act of plagiarism was much more difficult. Once an article had been read, it had to be checked out of the library where reference journals and periodicals were often stored or a detailed note card had to be made, then each word had to be copied. With the time and effort required to cheat the odds
The clear purpose for all this information is practical, it aims to cover a wide variety of sources for people to learn, teach, gather information, share ideas etc. When the information is used for research purposes, research or academic library scholars, publishers and librarians have already evaluated this information as a reliable resource. However, when using the WWW this doesn’t usually apply to everything. Nowadays, any person can create web pages, change information on other web pages and claim things to be their own by ignoring copyrights which therefore, raises questions about the reliability
The internet connects people closer to each other, thus, the barriers of distance between people narrows or in some cases, even disappears. My life without internet is hard to imagine. I would not have ventured into US for my further education if I did not spend long hours reading and asking questions in the online chat forums on tertiary education. My family and I used to generalize US as a dangerous country with legalized weapons such as guns. Internet has allowed me to see a bigger picture, and changed my perspective so that
First of all, is obviously easier to search for results on a web search tool, like Google, than having to choose a book about the subject you are dealing with, and then look up on its appendix, to see if it contains the piece of information you need. Secondly, the amount and variety of information you can get through the suggested web sites is bigger, because they are not only from books, they can also be from magazines and even essays and projects of college, that students share on internet. Finally, you don’t have to travel to the library, and as if it weren’t enough, you don’t need to write down the information while reading, because of the function “copy” and “paste”. It seems like this wonder couldn’t have any flaw, but in fact it does. Web sites are sometimes not as reliable as books.