Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

Humberto Luna

David McDevitt

English 100

16 October 2017

Midterm: Option One In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr he argues that the more and more that people start to rely on computers to “mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.” (97). He claims that Google is making it hard for everyone to stay concentrated on finishing The Internet has made it a lot harder, even for Literature Majors, to stay concentrated on and finish one piece of reading in a sitting. Carr states that he feels as if someone is changing the way he thinks. He goes on to say that he used to “spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages.” (88). He states that the internet is what is making this happen to him, and he is not the only one that this is happening

He says that although we may be reading more than people did on the 1970s or 1980s the style of reading that we are doing is different, and behind that different style of reading“ lies a different style of thinking.” (90). Maybe even “a new sense of the self.” (90). Carr brings up study done by Maryanne Wolf, a development psychologist at Tufts University, in which she says that “We are not only what we read, we are how we read.” (90). He goes on to explain how reading that the Internet is promoting, which puts efficiency and immediacy above all else, is weakening the ability of deep thinking and reading for humans. He also states that our ability to understand the text and make connections to the text is “disengaged”. I believe that all of this is true because I see this in myself. I sometimes find it hard to be able to understand texts and make personal connections to them when my peers are able to do that just