Is Google Making Us Stupid

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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. This essay is primarily a convincing essay, in that Carr is attempting to explain why Google is creating an attention-deficit society. He states that, “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy.”(603) Nicholas then goes on to mention how his concentration starts to wonder after reading two to three pages. The intimate relationship between the reader and the text is lost. Carr feels as though he has to constantly find his way back to the original text because of distractions. The web has become a “universal medium,” (603) in that even when not working, you are likely to be looking at emails, reading the news, reading articles, or listening to music. I can relate when Nicholas says, “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.”(603) I have learned how to immediately switch between windows to look at different texts and documents by just a key press. Nicholas cites many experts who are mostly literary types, on how they too feel about the “Net.” Most of them seem to have similar experiences while on the internet. The more they use it, the more they have to struggle to stay focused on the task at hand. Scott Karp, a blogger who writes about media, went as far to say

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