Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

When making a cake, ingredients and measurements are the elements for success. One wrong ingredient or mismeasurement and the cake is a flop. Similarly, writing requires ingredients such as; clarity, relevance, and grammar to make it flow smoothly. Nicholas Carr uses each of these to construct his writings. Particularly, in his article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", it is easy to see how Carr effectively communicates his writing through personal accounts and realism.
Nicholas Carr includes personal accounts in his writing to convey his message. Carr presents two reports of individuals who have witnessed the harmful effects of Google in their life. The first perspective Carr uses is a blogger, "Scott Karp, who writes a blog about online media,

Carr demonstrates this by understanding he could be wrong and claiming, “maybe I’m just a worrywart” (6 Carr). This extract shows his emotions and opens up room for there to be another side. His article explains that people tend to glorify technological progress with a counter tendency to “expect the worst of every new tool or machine.” Carr is on the more worrisome side of the scale. Carr is ironic in his essay when he claims, “you should be skeptical of my skepticism.” This sentence gives the reader the option to pick sides. Carr isn’t telling them to believe what he does but instead gives his evidence and tells the reader to form their own opinion, which is the opposite of what Google is trying to convey. After his statement, he adds that perhaps “Luddites or nostalgists will be proved correct, and from our hypertensive, data-stroked minds will spring a golden age of intellectual discovery.” Making a point for the other side shows the completeness of Carr’s understanding of the topic he is writing about. He reinforces his argument by saying “although it may replace the printing press, it produces something altogether” and continuing his claim on how the Net harms the