He has represented the Internet as the answer to all of society's worries. In both these articles both writers provide very convincing evidence weather on how the Internet is making us more brilliant or is it turning us brainless. In Nicholas Carr’s Article “Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” he argues the fact that the Internet indeed does make you “dumber,” almost scaring its reader to stay away from web usage. He takes a more scientific approach talking about how the Internet allows us to have a mass amount of information at any time, but with all that info comes distractions. He goes on about how those distractions hurt our mental thinking.
It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.” states Nicholas Carr in the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”. Has it ever happened that you stayed on the computer for hours and all you have written is your name and date? This is another effect that the internet has on us today. We easily get distracted and open new tabs to go on face book or any other social websites and make us procrastinate even more. We feel it’s easy to just search up an article in the internet and not even bother to read
In an article written by Nicholas Carr “Is Google Making Us Stupid”? A widely circulated article and in the book that followed, The Shallows (2010), The main point of this article brings up the question of whether the quick access to information on the Internet has led to us becoming more “impatient”. Carr argues that the “media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.” He alleges that the internet is changing the way one thinks to an increasingly shallow way that is, unreflecting and blandly standardized. Carr uses 3 illustrative anecdotes to make his argument of how technology has drastically changed our way of being not only in the way we think but also in the way we operate as human being’s.
I wanted to be connected” (Carr 16). The way that technology has changed and developed the internet has made Carr want to stress the fact that although technology is very useful, it can be very harmful to peoples’ brain in a way that it affects a person’s deeper level of thinking. Section II:The Author’s Background Nicholas Carr is a columnist, member of the Encyclopedia Britannica's editorial board of advisors, as well as an executive editor. Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics which have made his books New York Times Bestsellers in addition to being a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee. Aside from The Shallows, Carr has written two other influential books called The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google and Does IT Matter?
The Internet and Google are dominating the flow of the information through our eyes and ears to our brains. They are providing us with a huge amount of information by a way that is unprecedented in the history of mankind. I support Carr with his claim that Google is making us stupid because I think that after the invention of the Internet, human lifestyles have changed a lot; especially when they invented Google because it is the main search engine in the whole world, and people become completely dependent on it. Reading with focus is very important not only for the knowledge that we gain from the book author, but also in our minds for those spaces that bloom upon our minds from reading a book without focusing or meditating on the issue. For
“Is Google Making us Stupid?” In Nicholas Carr’s piece, “Is Google Making us Stupid”, he writes about a topic that is not usually thought about. He argues that the internet has shaped the way readers think nowadays. He starts writing about the supercomputer HAL and how the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman is disconnecting the memory circuits that control HAL’s artificial brain. This is when Carr explains to us that the computer could “feel [its] mind going” (Carr 67). With this beginning, Carr starts to explain to us that his mind has also become much more erratic since his use of the internet.
By mentioning and quoting a lot of successful writers and bloggers, he expect us to understand that the loss of memory and attention is something that can easily happen to everyone; even those who spend their time reading a lot of information, they will suffer the same consequences if the media is not presented by an auspicious medium. Talking about google
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.
What interest me the most is the search engines. They have made it so much easier for people to look up random information. For example when you are typing something in on Google or any search engine at that when you type the first few letters in there will be a drop box on the bottom giving you suggestions of what you just might be looking for, or what to choose. It’s like the search engine doing the work and thinking for you all in the same sense. We have become so dependent on the internet and Google that if you think about it for the most people, let’s just be honest we as human cannot live without it.
Viehmann English 112 Google: The Fast and Arguable Resource In Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” he talks about how he had difficulties researching while reading books and long articles. He discusses on how the Internet effects our thinking, reading, writing, and how our brains react to get used to the new media. Carr attempts to provoke the reader with negative effects that result from Internet use. Carr uses some specific examples, and figures, to demonstrate his point of view on online researching. From Carr's opening paragraph, he gives a rough understanding on his skewed view, comparing Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey to his own personal emotion of becoming mentally disconnected.