After reading the article “Is Google Making us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, I am impressed and surprised with his ideas about how Internet is shaping our process of thinking and our behaviors gradually in a unconscious way. I have never thought about that the reason why I don’t have the patience to read long articles or books is because the Internet or Google has developed my habit of scanning words instead of diving deeply into the readings. Perhaps, being a millennial, who is born with advance technology
And will this be a continuous process to other generations? In this essay, I plan to discuss the internet and its relationship to ‘poor memory and short concentration spans’. In the article ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid’ by Nicholas Carr, he addresses the negative ways in which
controversy over whether technology is beneficial or harmful to the human brain. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, the author talks about what the Internet is doing to our brains. Steven Johnson wrote “Everything Bad is Good For You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter” to discus his argument that popular culture is growing more complex therefore making people more intelligent. “Are iPads, Smart phones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?”
The essay, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is about the effects that the internet has on a persons' mental thought process. How we can now learn information in a matter a seconds that use to take months to acquire. Reading a novel use to be near effortless; Now it's strenuous on ones' mind to finish a four paragraph article. I've also noticed a change in the way I think. Just like Nicolas Carr, 'Deep Reading' has become difficult. When I was young I thought reading was enjoyable. To tell you
my parents, you will be surprised as to how much technology has changed in the past few decades. This increasing epidemic for the excessive urgency for technology has grown exponentially. In Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google making us Stupid”, he discusses key points as to why technology is making society have detrimental effects on cognition that diminish our capacity for concentration and contemplation. I agree with Carr’s viewpoint because I think technology, especially the internet, has taken over our
Rhetorical Analysis of Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid? We are at a time where technology is widespread; it has become a part of our everyday life leading to advantages and disadvantages and technology currently has become the most important topic to discuss and everyone has developed their own unique opinion. In Nicholas Carr’s article published in 2008, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, he argues that as technology progresses people’s mentality changes. Carr is effective in his argument
use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say” This quote shows the relationship between people and technology. Nicholas Carr has valid points in his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” about technology and I concur with him that technology does make people stupid. Technology does make people stupid but not in the traditional way of what stupid means, so It doesn’t make people stupid in the sense that they lack knowledge