Why Is Google Making USupid

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. …show more content…
It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense”. Millions, even billions, of articles are only a click of a mouse and a few key strokes away from us. It only takes a few seconds to type searches into Google’s search bar and we no longer dig really deep into a piece of …show more content…
Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?”, the reader automatically thinks that it is a sentence coming from a human but is actually coming from a machine. Carr includes this quote in order to begin his writing in a very shocking way and tie the whole article together at the end. The author of this specific scene includes this quote to show how he believes that machines will eventually become more “human” than humans are. Carr ties this into the last paragraph of his paper to show how us humans are becoming so involved and focused on getting things done that we begin to function like “clockwork”. Humans are becoming more like robots and believing what we are told is correct instead of taking the time to form our own opinions and thoughts on topics. This is especially frightening due to the fact that I have seen instances when humans seemed to be functioning just like robots. Nicholas Carr provides an interesting question to his readers. He follows this question with various different viewpoints of different authors and professors. By doing this, he makes the reader do the exact opposite of what he says is done nowadays. We, as the readers, are forced to take a minute and think about the point of the article instead of just skimming over it. This is why his point is effective. He makes us go the extra mile in order to come up with an answer to his question. Google is making us stupid in a way. Along