We adapted around the clock, molded our minds around the concept of time until it no longer felt like a technology. Carr concludes that similar conditions are happening to our brains, we are molding around internet, phones, and other
Writer, Nicolas Carr, in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, expresses the search engine Google is effecting the human mind. Carr’s purpose is to covey his idea that the web changes the way humans think. He creates a pessimistic tone to his audience that spending a lot of time on the internet is bad for the mind. I don’t believe Carr made an effective argument on this article because of the tone he used, the references he provided, and how the article was laid out. Carr begins his article to the readers by acknowledging the web is messing with his brain and he is not thinking the way he used to.
In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, the author suggests that modern technology is changing the way him and other people think. He argues that, in the past, it was much easier to engage in long readings. Now, he claims, reading is more challenging and people are more likely to skim a passage rather than fully absorb the information due to excessive use of the internet (313-314). Carr uses Friedrich Nietzsche’s relationship with his typewriter as an example to express that with every new technology, he warns, the human mind is vulnerable to a change in structure (319). Carr observes and suggests that the more people use and rely on computers, the more the human mind essentially becomes a form of artificial intelligence
In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, he states that our minds are changing because of the time we spend online. He explains how not only does the media just supply the information to the users, it also morphs the thoughts that flow in people’s minds. Previous habits such as reading are slowly being affected, but only few have noticed the change. For instance, when surfing the web people skim the articles they’re reading and merely go from link to link. Carr talks about how easy it is to research and find things on the internet within minutes maybe even seconds.
Torreblanca 1 Tied to technology In Nicholas Carr’s essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” the writer states the importance of how the internet has a huge impact on people's life in different ways. Carr explains how it's so easy for anyone to search anything with just a click of a button. He reveals that one can't stop reading books altogether instead they read online changing the way they think.
Nicholas Carr claims his opinion on how computer and internet changed people’s way of thinking and going to turn people into machines in the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid”. He states current situation that we are in a Internet era and his mind is not going like before when we focused on deep reading. First of all, the new universal medium Net reshape our process of thought, from concentrating on one reading to skimming readings. Although we read more, we did not completely understand it and made a rich mental connection with it. He talks about how Google’s value contradict people’s healthy growth.
In Nicholas Carr’s, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” article, he goes on to express his viewpoint on how Google is turning towards the use of artificial intelligence. Carr conveys his opinion on Google’s mindset by using credible sources and personal experience of change to prove that Google is motivated by technology to try and fix problems by using artificial intelligence, but this is the actual problem. These companies create these search engines that give us exactly “what we want”, but is it beneficial for our intelligence? One of Carr’s sources is Scott Karp, who used to enjoy reading all the time, and actually majored in lit, confessed that he has stopped reading all together. He goes on to say that him and peers are not able to concentrate
Analytical Review of “Is Google Making Us Stupid” As society advances into the technological era, innovations have served society as a catalyst to become more efficient, more technologically sound, and most importantly more in tuned with the rapid changes that are presented to us every day. Yet, there are some, that like to stay “old school.” There are some arguments that state these technological advancements are receding society’s intellectual advancement. Nonetheless, it should be apparent that the subject on society’s advancement has many view points and approaches. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Nicholas Carr approaches the common issues of common availability of information through the internet; most importantly how it effects our ability to search and retain information.
The focus of my essay is Nicolas Carr's article "Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to Our Brains". In this paper Nicolas Carr talks of how people have been made lazy by the Internet with its readily available information; everything is at our fingertips and we no longer have to work for any information. And he talks about how people have become stupid by not needing to learn anything as the internet has it all there for us
Michael Pacheco 11.22.2014 English 1101 Dianne Layden A Dire Consequence In his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr professes his opinion on the impression that we, as a population, are becoming shallower and strewn in our thinking. As Carr states his concerns, “I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading…
Some of his main points that he pointed out was that how we have became too reliant on the Internet and never really learn the material because we have such easy access to this information. Just like how Plato explained on a stone slab a thousand years ago, and just like my example about my truck. Also he mentions that how our minds are becoming warped with reading tons of quick articles that are full of information and having a negative effect on us when we try to read long lengthy articles or books together information, without drifting off and not paying attention to the reading. Finally Carr’s main point of his reading is that he is just worried for up in coming generation of internet users are going to become to dependent on the internet, and even try to make a super computer that is smarter than our brain. Lastly I do believe in what Carr is talking about of how we are becoming to depend towards the Internet, and that how it is shaping our minds.
Carr decides to quote Richard Forman’s sentences from Forman’s recent essay. For example, Carr uses “As we are drained of our inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance, we risk turning into pancake people ---spread wide and thin as we connect with vast network of information accessed by the ere touch of a button” (qtd Forman 328) The essence of Carr’s use of this specific quote from Richard Forman’s essay is paint a negative mental image into his intend audience minds. The words and phrases like pancake people, drained, and risk all have negative cogitations. Carr also puts a lot of effort into getting his readers to feel and to persuade them into feeling the same way he does when stating: “I can feel it too. Over the past years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the natural circuity, reprogramming my memory.
He tries the explain the natural development of technology and how it is leading us to artificial intelligence, but in doing this he does not add into in his argument. The objective of companies like Google attempting to supplement our intelligence with artificial intelligence does not have any measurable outcome in the real world. The counterargument is trying to take something that he believes may happen in the future vs. something that he has explained to be experienced over time. While it is possible that he is trying to warn about the future to this problem, this argument does not supplement his argument that we are losing our attention span when it comes to long readings online. Carr is only deviated from what he is trying to convince the reader, and this only adds to the tangled mess that his arguments are in
In “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain,” by Nicholas Carr, Carr discusses that people who use the web appear to struggle and have to challenge themselves twice as much to stay focused on long pieces of writing. In the reading, Carr says that he has a major problem being focused on a long text. He realized how the internet had detrimental effects on our brains and conflicted with our reading concentration. He mentions that reading a full text is almost impossible because our concentration drifts away.
In the essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” by Nicholas Carr, he explores the idea that new technology is changing the way we approach literature. Not only has the approach changed, but also the way we process the information, or at what length. Information is available and compact in today's society, this is changing our thinking; therefore our reading patterns has altered. We are becoming as the essay refers to as “Pancake people.” Society can be spread wide in the things they know, but are thin in the quantity of one specific area.
