In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. He talks about the influence the Internet has on people. How easy it is with the click of a button and you can get thousands of results. This is the power of Google. It’s having effects on the brain but not quite like you would want it to.…
In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr, a Dartmouth and Harvard graduate, and member of encyclopedia Britannica’s editorial board of advisors, poses the argument that the constant use of sources such as Google can reshape the thought process in a negative way. Although, the Internet has brought many advantages to the user, these advantages could be detrimental to the brains thought process.…
turned into the guy on the Jet Ski, just skimming the surface for the answer. Not going the extra…
In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr explains his point of view of how the brain is being reprogramed due to technology. He states that the Internet changes how we receive and process information and that surfing the web takes almost no concentration and that is why we lose focus easily. Carr gives his experiences as an example in how he is no longer able to keep concentration to even complete reading an article. His main point is that search engines, like Google, and the internet in general is damaging our ability to think, and that we were probably better in the past when reading was done…
Is Google, with all of its information at the tip of our fingers actually making us dumber than we are? On July 1st 2008 an article was written by Nicholas Carr titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and this article was taken differently by many people. He talks about how he has problems reading ever since he discovered Google. Carr states “my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do” (2) and he blames Google is the problem. He believes the constant multi-tasking and skimming over articles on the internet has hindered the way we read. Steven Johnson however will somewhat disagree with the article and writes his own article title “Yes, People Still Read, But Now Its Social.” Mr.…
Style is the one distinctive factor that separates an individual from the proverbial herd. The fascinating aspect of literature is how it differs based on the style of the individual. In the essay “Is Google making us Stupid” the persuasive style of Nicholas Carr’s writing allows us to see his unique perspective. The use of his textual evidence, emotion, and incorporation of literary devices distinguish his unique style and provide a legitimate convincing argument.…
Through the short story, Is Google Making Us Stupid, the author, Nicholas Carr suggests that the Internet affects how human beings process literary works. He begins to illustrate this point by using a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where the man purposely disassembles HAL, the supercomputer, in order to disconnect its ability to think for itself. Carr personifies HAL, and describes how it could feel its brain being taken away as the man stripped it of its memory circuits. Carr compares the sensation that the supercomputer endures, when losing its mind, to how the Internet has rewired our human brains. It has made low-concentration levels a norm, and thus, has caused a change in our reading styles: we now immerse in a shallow…
In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. Carr speaks on how over the last decade his focus and ability to concentrate has been declining due to the fact that he has a plethora of knowledge available to him on his smartphone or computer, thus he is not able to focus on a task at hand for as long as he could before the age of information. Carr claims that his mind is changing for the worse and backs his evidence with first hand accounts of respected scholars who also share the same fate as he does. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is an article that delves deep into the age of information and can explain why it is much easier for people to procrastinate today than it was a decade ago.…
Critical Analysis of “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “African National Identities Can’t Be Built on Soccer Fever”…
In his article: Is Google Making Us Stupid, the author Nicholas Carr describes how Internet searching influences he and his friends. He states that he became to lose “concentration” on books and long-articles. Therefore, he raises a view that we need to care about the Web information, although it makes human life more convenient. He wrote: “The Web [had] been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes” (Para.3). Obviously, the Internet searching technologies, for instance, Google, it really helps us save times. The Internet searching technology makes human life more convenient and make office works and school paper works more efficient.…
In his essay “Is google making us stupid” Nicholas Carr explains how the internet has helped us to gather vast amounts of information very quick, but also how it has affected our attention span when the time comes to read long pieces of texts. Carr also feels that our brains are constantly getting rewired due to the amount of time we spend online has caused him to lose concentration when he is reading. Besides, make it easier to find information and rewiring our brains the internet has changed the way we comprehend what we are reading. Carr states that before the internet he could easily get caught in the argument of what he was reading and that he no longer does it because his concentration starts to drift away after reading a couple of pages.…
In class we watched a video from “A Space Odyssey” and read an article called “Is Google Making us Stupid?” The video is about a robot acting like a human and refusing to do what the human is telling him to do. In this case it is like the human is the robot. The tone makes it very scary. “Is Google Making us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr is about his idea that the internet is taking over and is affecting the way that the human mind operates. Carr relates it to his personal life and talks about how the internet has changed the way that he reads and has shortened his attention span. On one hand I agree with Carr’s idea that the internet is taking over. But on the other hand, I still insist that it has not fully to blame for the laziness of the people. Technology has both positive and negative development. Human thought is one of the centers of the world and it is sometimes uncomfortable and scary to think that this might change. Most people…
Stop mindless surfing the internet, and get some stuffs done. Something my mother said all the time. Today, internet has become a huge part of our daily life, we gather information, socialize with our friends and even shop online. The internet has definitely become an essential part of our daily life.…
Google makes it easier to find the information you need instead of looking for it for hours. Although google makes it easier to find the information a person needs, the person does not actually obtain the information. Carr makes a good point saying “My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.” (Carr) it shows a person can read something but not actually learn it. Google is a good resource, but because of it we do not actually learn the information we need.…
In the article, author Nicholas Carr, presents a very interesting question: is Google making us stupid? Throughout the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Carr provides his audience with plenty of factual information. The audience somewhat travels through a time lapse of how we started out reading simple pieces of literature way back before the printing press was invented and now have evolved into reading articles online. The information leaves the reader thinking about whether or not this is actually happening. Carr’s belief that Google is making us stupid, or in better words, lazy, makes sense because of the search engine making the information we desire so easily accessible. Carr is correct that Google is making our population stupid.…