The web is a strange place The internet is an interesting place, one can find all manner of information, be entertainment all day, every hour, seven days a week, it allows us to connect with relatives or strangers all around the world, and it’s slowly damaging us. An author by the name of William Gibson wrote an article titled “The Net is a Waste of Time” published on July 14, 1996 in The New York Times; in the article William Gibson argues that soon the internet will be boring, used only for work
of what you sought out to be. Although people today like, David Carr, who say that we have it way too easy. They say we have become lazy and David Carr went as far to say that we are becoming stupid. His motives of calling out the younger generations is because of the technologies that are available. David Carr is insinuating that people who use google might be making them stupid. That article title sounds so enticing, but the travesty is that the article doesn’t do any justice to the title. He relies
that they fail to notice why things happen. Standards and rules in society are holding us back from becoming mature. We have relied so much on everybody else that if we were ever to be left alone we would be helpless. Our reliance on others in undeniable, the modern era we live in pushes us further away from accomplishing enlightenment, as a result, we become increasingly immature. Now everyone goes to Google to get the answers they need for almost everything without much effort. All the information
It also can affect us negatively in the long run. In the article Is Google Making Us Stupid? Carr states that "I'm not thinking the way I used to think." He says that throughout the past ten years his mind has lost track. He has become so used to searching and using the internet. He states, "The Web has been a godsend to me as writer" (337). The internet is taking away our ability to think and doing all of the thinking for us. We are becoming lazy and "stupid" because we have all the
These technologies proved that modernization has leveled the economic platforms around the world, making it flat. And as Friedman included in his book “the ten world flatteners” I can say that it really flattened the world, why? Because what these flatteners turned out was truly present in our world today. It is absolutely modernized. Given that the
in the society nowadays has changed the lifestyle of how humans work that it has made us dependent on them. Instead of making our way to the library to source out references, we turn to Google, as it is the fastest way to an answer. Or how communication among our closest ones only happen online or over a text or over a phone call. These acts have obviously shown it’s effect on us, and how it has made us the lazy people we have