Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

In the narrative “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr, writer of technology and culture, argues that the instinctive animal that we are, are becoming more equivalent to robotic forms. To support this main idea, Carr suggest internet technology is exerting our animal like brains once processing in old media clock style, to the use of new technology which is awakening our “plastic like brains” to fold and shape not only in cognitive ways but also neurologically. Nicholas Carr emphasizes this through his own distractions while reading on the internet to researching how people’s adaptation and interactions with this technology is remapping their process of viewing text to their methodology of thought through notable personage’s experiences

One of the most compelling claims Carr makes to support his arguments is on the damaging consequences of continuously high usage of the internet which inadvertently diminishes one’s ability to focus and read long passages. Although, the internet has many benefits from quickly gathering information for research, versus the lengthy time it takes using books, Carr asserts reading on the internet is depleting his level of deep concentration.

The effects of skimming the surface of articles are draining and robbing our brain’s process of thought patterns. Despite, the changing, deploring effects alternating and hinder our cognitive reading habits, Carr suggest technology has proven our society reads more today than in past history (Carr 317). Of course in past history, television was a medium, however, their cognitive ability to read on deep levels appeared not to be altered. In addition, the internet is the largest, continuously streaming pool of knowledge ever built in the world which adequately supplies you with the ability to seek, research and surf more information than one brain can process. Inadvertently, causes reverse comprehensive engagement thus, leaving concentration of long pieces of writing the thing of the past (Carr 315). In agreement with Carr, Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist with Tufts University, narrative of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain also, suggests we are “mere decoders of information and our ability to interpret text … form mental connections from deeply reading is disengaged” (Carr 317). This evidence suggests that our future reading habits will change. Furthermore, Wolf explains, our brain is taught to read, not wired-in