Is Google Making Us Stupid Rhetorical Analysis Nicholas Carr is an author who primarily writes about technology, economics, and culture. The essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” has been was published in “The World is a Text,” by Jonathan Silverman, and Dean Radar. Like the title of the essay suggests, Carr constantly reiterates how and why the internet is creating problems for today’s society. He makes references to Google, and also discusses other technological advancements throughout history. Carr does this to show just how big of an impact that the internet has not only on the literary society, but society as a whole.
‘Textese’ is not as deviant as people think, they make it out to be the biggest first world problem anyone has ever seen but really its only if people are in a real rush that they use it. David Crystal author of ‘Txtng: the Gr8 Db8’ explains that shortening words and changing letters has been around almost forever, since Ancient Egyptians and Shakespeare. The fact that teachers are worried about this generation’s intelligence is also quite absurd. Studies show that the amount of texting we do
In 2001 it succeeded in shutting down Napster (the leading on-line source of digital music), and it has threatened thousands of individuals with legal action. [10] This failed to slow the decline in revenue and proved a public-relations disaster. [10] However, some academic studies have suggested that downloads did not cause the decline. [11] Legal digital downloads became widely available with the debut of the iTunes Store in 2003. The popularity of internet music distribution has increased and in 2009 more than a quarter of all recorded music industry revenues worldwide are now coming from digital channels.
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."
In what ways has it not been successful? Wikipedia is an open source collaborative online encyclopedia that changes every day says our text (Bowles 2010). And I do believe that Jimmy Wales had a great idea in starting Wikipedia. I know whenever I want to look something up, like an actor’s birthday, Wikipedia is the first website I search. The website has been successful because millions of people reference it every day, and even though it is not a credible source, it can lead you in the right direction.
Lauren Grimes Mr. Fisher English 11 26 June 2012 Black and White, But Not Read All Over Two hundred and nineteen; the number of times the “n” word appears in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (“Huck Finn, Censorship and the N-Word Controversy”). One hundred and twenty-seven; the number of years since the first publishing of the novel in 1885, it has been critically named one of the most controversial novels ever written. It is the fourth most banned book in the United States from schools and libraries, ironically including Mark Twain Intermediate School (“10 Most Controversial Books”). Certain events, characters, and language in Huck Finn certainly do point towards racism and can be found offensive, but I respectfully disagree
A terrorist threat/ attack and a nuclear threat are real attacks that still go on today in our country and our people are scared of. In my opinion both of them are alike. They make the government have to evaluate everything that is going on and it deters the economic growth in our community, on this causes the government to take advantage of their view of defense against an upcoming attack. A war and an attack such as 9/11 are two different types of attacks. And these are attacks that people will forever remember.
Google: Dumbing Down Society Does the Internet make us stupid? Or does it simply allow us to become more efficient? The answer is yes to both, and these are questions that come to mind while reading an article titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. If you were born in the early 90’s or before, it is safe to assume you have witnessed the rapid evolution of technology, which has now led to the simplicity of tasks that used to require a great amount of time and effort. In this article, Carr explains to us the ways in which he believes that technology has affected our society.
Physicians around the country are celebrating as they discover that they will soon have the privilege of working harder and getting paid less. With the introduction of Obama care, aka the affordable health care act, doctors will have the honor of serving more of Americas ill, with less resources. Wait but that’s not all, not only will they get to serve more people, but they will have the pleasure of donating one third of their pay check for the cause. If you are feeling excluded from the opportunity to participate in donating to the cause, don’t worry because you will have the chance to donate as well. If you are already content with your existing, current income plan congrats!
", Frank Zimring, Summer 1968 4. ” Expanded Homicide Table 8”, Federal Bureau of Inverstigation, Spring 2012 Thesis Paragraph: Gun control has been a hot topic in the United States for over a decade now, and it isn’t about to go away. 116,975,100 citizens of all walks of life who take part in exercising their second amendment right are falling victim to the negligence of .00002% of the population, leaving their right to bear arms to be questioned by the very government that granted its citizens this right centuries ago. Reasons that many pro-gun control activists vary, however, upon further examination of exactly who these people are and what kind of experience they have had with firearms, it becomes clear that a frightening portion of these people grew up without seeing any benefit whatsoever in their second amendment right. Instead, just like every other