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.
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I felt that the article was very unjust and it felt like he really had no clue to what really goes on in school. For example he states in his article that “Consider the schools. They receive more than $40 billion a year in federal aid. Despite the aid — and all the federal mandates that go with it — average school test scores have been essentially flat for decades. Federal intervention has failed to improve scores in part because the top-down rules that come with aid have squelched local innovation.” This statement is utterly false.
In his argument, he makes a logical fallacy. He does some computations to calculate how many children are annually born from poor parents. He makes his own assumptions that “from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot so many,…I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry” (Swift 239). His computation there is not based on a real fact and even if it is trustworthy information, since he does not mention any source it is not considered as a true
731-745. Print. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" By Nicholas Carr informs us on the ways technology is negatively effecting us as a society. By using the internet as a resource, we depend on it by quickly finding answers to all our questions in a matter of minutes which changes how we process information.
Kirsten Laman ENGL 1301-61507 Professor Jackson 30 October 2014 Cognitive Effects of the Internet The book The Shallows by Nicholas Carr states that the introduction of the internet into society has had a profound effect on our culture. In other words, the internet has affected the way people think, read, and remember. The rapid access to tons of information has also affected people’s behavior making them less patient and less productive. According to Carr, “The Net commands our attention with far greater insistency than our television, or radio or morning newspaper ever did” (117). In today’s world, the internet has become essential to work, school and entertainment.
He says that as the internet becomes our primary source of information, it is affecting our ability to read books and other long narratives. This process of rewiring our brains carries the danger of crushing human experience. The author uses many specific examples and statistics to demonstrate his point of view. Carr argues whether our reading and writing habits may be affected by the search engines on Google. He explains how people are on a disadvantage when they rely on e-books rather than books.
Carr thinks that excessive use of the internet might cause permanent changes to the way our brains work and we don’t have to remember as much, because we have RAM (Random Access Memory). Carr suggests that due to all the choices and distractions the internet provides its user whilst searching for information, it ‘turns us back to our native state of distractedness’ (Carr 373). Carr feels like due to the constant quick thinking skills that the internet demands us to have; we are losing our higher order cognitive abilities gained from focus reading such as from a book. Our ability to think in a creative and reflective way is diminishing. Carr feels the automatic way of thinking means we are ‘losing our mental discipline’ (Carr 375).
The ease of information and immediacy of it presented by the World Wide Web is simply changing the world’s reading culture. The absurd effects may be much more than the author has focused on, but the loss of concentration is one of them. Given that internet use is likely to increase, I am in support of his suggestion; studies need to be conducted to examine the extent of the damage the internet has caused on global reading culture. The article is well written, thesis well researched, and the theme is easy to establish. Nicholas Carr has succeeded in prompting his readers to consider whether Google is making us stupid.