Is Google Making USupid Summary

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The internet is define as “The global communication network that allows almost all computers worldwide to connect and exchange information” (Google Dictionary). The internet has become a major asset to almost each and everyone’s lives. One major site that every internet user use is Google. Google is the world’s largest search engine site on the web. Many people believe that Google is very vital, whereas others believe that Google is a curse. Nicholas Carr, the author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” believes that Google has rearrange the way that people think. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr states that Google is causing people to become ignorant because they do not read intensely to find information. In addition,…show more content…
Krieger, Krieger states “A new study confirms it: Google is altering your brain. More precisely, our growing dependence on the Internet has changed how -- and what -- our brains choose to remember” (Krieger). Krieger slightly agrees with Carr. She agrees with Carr on the fact that Google is making everyone dependent on them; however, she also believes that Google is not making everyone ignorant, but it is changing the way people think. In the article, she asks a psychologist of Columbia University, Betsy Sparrow, about her experiment on The Google Effect. Betsy Sparrow states, “‘we’re not thoughtless empty-headed people who don't have memories anymore,’ Sparrow said. ‘But we are becoming particularly adept at remembering where to go find things. And that's kind of amazing.’" Sparrow research noticed that people are not losing their knowledge, but they are just changing it. For instance, instead of people just remember everything they read, they remember where they read the information at on the web. To add, Columbia University and Harvard’s four experiments found that students only remember information that they believe they might lose, but they did not remember information that they believe they can find again on the
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