Google Making Us Lazy

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The world is careening to an end. A psychological advancement is changing the way society thinks. The world as we know it will soon disappear completely. A rebirth of the planet has begun, lead by the World Wide Web. This revelation has many people frustrated, scared, and cowering in corners; yet others don’t seem to grasp the enormity of the situation. The internet database has changed exponentially over the last decade, bringing with it one of the most important features of this generation: the search engine. “Google” is the front runner in the revolution of search engines. It can instantly browse anything from Kelly Clarkson, to removing ringworms from a pet mole rat, to the daily horoscope all in a matter of milliseconds. Nothing is too…show more content…
In the essay, Is Google Making us Stupid? (Carr 2008) information is revealed that, “Google has declared that it’s mission is […] to develop “the perfect search engine” […] that understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want” (pg. 6). The potential that this carries is astounding. Soon, poor underprivileged societies will have access to the same information that Yale and Harvard graduates had to pay thousands for. Once information is opened more freely to the public, advances in science and medicine will take off in leaps and bounds as new discoveries can be…show more content…
Writer for The New York Times, Stephen Pinker stated in his 2010 article, Mind Over Mass Media that, “when comic books were accused of turning juveniles into delinquents in the 1950s crime was falling to record lows. […] the decades of television, transistor radios and rock videos were also decades in which I.Q. scores rose continuously.” There is no way to tell the outcome of a cultural altering event until it is viewed in hindsight. If the fear of trying something new persisted throughout history, electricity would never have been discovered and all essays would need to be written by ink and quill under candle

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