Is Google Making Us Stupid? * I will start off by saying that I do agree with the author in stating that Google is making us (technology driven people) stupid. Modern technology with computers, cell phones and tablets can be credited to allowing us access to the internet. There used to be a time when doing research meant going to the library and checking out a book or encyclopedia and actually looking up the information to be researched. Also there was a time when you had a question, the way to find the answer was to maybe ask an actual human being.
I think Google stops people from using their knowledge. In the blink of an eye, the search engine delivers useful information about pretty much any subject imaginable. Think about when you don’t understand something or your unsure where do you go. Most of the time you’ll go to Google to get the information. Without out even taking the time to think about what you’re not understanding.
In Nicholas Carr essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” he states that people are losing focus easier than before and instead of reading the material, that they are skimming over it. Most of our time is spent on the internet. We tend to skim over information and move to the next thing, me myself I am guilty of this. Nicholas also makes the statement, “The Human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive. I feel like he uses this to show how the internet has skimmed our brains.
"Yes, Google is hampering our ability to recall information." (Betsy Sparrow, Columbia University) The study also found that Google improves certain kinds of memory, like methods for retrieving information. Sparrow's findings aren't the whole story, though. As scientists have stressed since the dawn of web, the effects of Internet usage on cognition are pretty complicated. Search engines are rerouting our memory.
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In today’s society we have become lazy individuals. We like everything fast and simple. In the article “Is Google Making us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr he talked about the pros and cons of Google, but mainly focused on the fact that it is helping us lose our creativity. He begins this article explaining how researching has become increasing easier because of the internet. Research that would normally take days at the library on can be searched within minutes on the computer.
And that deep reading no longer exist, and if that’s the case we are struggling to even be able to sit still long enough to immerse ourselves in deep reading. Carr goes on to explain the reason why this is the case, which he blames on spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing the internet. But he then goes on to say, “the web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days and stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.” In this quote Carr is simply saying that even though the internet has made us more lazy as individuals it does have its’ perks especially for a writer like himself. There is no need to
Google is a web search engine, which appear to have taken a toll on the generation of today. When anything needs answering or research to be conducted, all one has to do is “Google it!” The author Nicholas Carr of the book: “Is Google Making Us Stupid” believes that this particular search engine limits cognitive thinking. “ I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book, a lengthy article used to be easy.
Reading Journal-Hal And Me The passage 'Hal and Me' talks about the impacts that network has on human beings. Nicholas Carr mentions his troubles to focus reading long paragraphs due to his habits of absorbing short and quick information from websites. He thinks it's the internet which cause people's incapableness to concentrated on reading passages. He cited a lot of examples and his own self-experiences to illustrated his points. First, he mentions some advantages of net, such as convenience, interest, and conciseness.
I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle." He says this change is because of all the time he spends online. As a writer, he finds the Web a valuable tool, but he thinks it's having a bad effect on his concentration.
The problems that the author is trying to solve is to get people to become more knowledgeable by reading much more educated novels, and not using the internet databases to quickly find an answer or solution to something. He believes that if the internet was not invented we would have been much more educated than we were a long time ago. I agree that America has become much more sluggish with how we obtain information. The ramifications of today’s society as a “content” driven civilization are that Spending a lot of time online only becomes a problem when it absorbs too much of your time, causing you to neglect your relationships, your work, school, or other important things in your