Is Google Making Us Stupid? Criticism of the Web most often questions whether we are becoming more superficial and scattered in our thinking. Some see the change as a loss, not as a gain. Some would say that the Web is the greatest humanizing impact in the World. The World Wide Web has changed the way we think and how we live our everyday lives, but is it molding our lives?
People have been saying that computers are making us dumber basically since computers existed. Then the Internet came, eventually bringing Google into existence, and any hope for the future of intelligent life spiraled off into cyberspace. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" The article served more as a jumping off point for future research and over the course of the next few years, scientists and journalists alike tried to provide an answer with a number of experiments and studies. "Yes, Google is hampering our ability to recall information."
Nowadays computers are used for just about every aspect in our lives; whether it’s to research information, talk with friends on social networks, or even as a source of entertainment. In this essay, I will describe the pros and cons on using Google and how it can affect our lives. The Internet as we know it today can be very informative and helpful for whatever someone is looking for. After reading Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, I feel that I can agree with what he states in reference to the Google search engine. Although he states some great points of views on page 337 such as “My mind now expects to take in information the way the net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.
Technology Influence on Today’s Society Technology has become an important resource in the world today. Many writers are writing essays about how technology is beneficial and harmful to our society today. In essays, “A Personal Guide to Digital Happiness” by Anna Akbari and “Society is Dead, We Have Retreated to the iWorld,” by Andrew Sullivan, they discuss their views on current technology. Akbari and Sullivan both write about how technology is positive and negative; however, Akbari focuses on mainly the positive ways to better utilize technology, while Sullivan focuses on the negative. A similarity between Sullivan and Akbari is they both recommend the reader to take a sabbatical from technology.
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.
Cadence Taylor Professor Smith English 101 26 September, 2012 Is Google Making Us Stupid? Society has essentially turned to using the internet for everything, and we are finding it hard to read genuine books, articles, newspapers, and etcetera. Nicholas Carr is fundamentally trying to state that now people are becoming much lazier. He states in his second paragraph that, “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy.” A long time ago most people would find themselves entertaining themselves by reading books. In today’s generation the only time we ever read is for a class, or something important.
These distractions take place and I have to re-read paragraphs to make sure I get my focus back. To a certain extent Google has had the capability of making me smarter than I was before. Google information comes much faster than by calling someone on the phone or going to the library for research projects. Faster and more convenient are the benefits that I see from using modern technology. Times are changing and the days when I just sit in a quiet space and read a paper book for leisure or obtaining information is being
Perfection! David Wolman, in his article “The Critics Need a Reboot. The Internet Hasn't Led Us Into a New Dark Age.” Mentions “The explosion of knowledge represented by the Internet and abetted by all sorts of digital technologies makes us more productive and gives us the opportunity to become smarter, not dumber.” In today’s world everybody wants to work smarter not harder. Google gives us the ability to save a trip to the local library or by purchasing that textbook on World War II by giving us easy access. Let’s
Therefore, whenever we access a website, Google can collect more information about us, and if we access more websites, then that would be easier and faster for them to collect the information they want. They do not care if we read valuable or wrong information, all they want is to know more about
“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.