In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicolas Carr analyzes the dramatic affects that technologies have been having on our brains. The short summary, the Net is making us all mindless zombies in Carr’s mind, but he is not the only who feels that way. His long dragged out article is abundantly full of meaning examples, personal opinions, and hard facts on the drastic changes the Net has done to our brains. Carr starts his articles with the death of super computer, HAL, from the movie A Space Odyssey.
Summary One Nicholas Carr in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” states that the internet is causing deficiencies in reading and has caused people to have brief attention spans while reading a book. Carr immediately goes into explanation on how he can no longer sit to read without becoming “fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do.” Carr then uses the rhetorical device of ethos by using creditable sources to back his claim. He uses a claim from scholars at University College London that stated, “It is clear that users are not reading online in traditional sense,” therefore stating people are skimming and scanning for information.
In his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr argues that the internet has been changing the way of human cognition. He supports his argument by emphasizes the negative experience that the readers are difficult to focus on deep reading when they read online. In addition, he illustrates the professionals’ studies and explanations of how new technology influences the internet users’ cognition. He concerns that artificial intelligence has slowly changed and has controlled human brain activity.
Carr understands who his audience is and you can clearly see this in his essay. He doesn’t list of a series of his previous accomplishments to seem superior to the reader. In fact, simple things like his education level aren’t even mentioned in the essay. At the same time, Carr doesn’t make himself seem under qualified. He makes himself seem relatable without coming off as uninformed.
Vargas 1 Internet In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” the author Nicholas Carr suggests the idea of the internet can make people concentrate less on reading two or three pages. Carr senses his attention span decreases whenever he tries to read an article. He believes it's because the internet is making us slothful. The internet can be significant to our life making it easier for people to find what they are looking for, but it's making us have trouble reading lengthy articles.
Is it really Googles fault or is America just lazy? In Nicolas Carr's article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", he argues that people feel like they cannot read longer articles and books because we now have everything at our fingertips on Google. Is it right to assume that it really is Googles fault when there is not much factual evidence to back that up? The argument that Carr presents to us in his article is problematic in that he provides weak evidence and insufficient assumptions but includes many strong viewpoints from other recognized scholars. A piece of evidence Carr provides is that as a part of a five-year research program from the University College London, "scholars examined computer logs documenting the behavior of visitors...
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
Macy Sadler Mrs. Woodward APEL: Period 4 5 February 2017 Quality Non-Fiction and the Internet How often do you log on, scroll through, post, or “like” something on the internet and is that time used on the Web interfering with your cognitive abilities? Do credibility and sentence style make Nicholas Carr’s article a reliable source to reference and believe? Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, is full of irony, persona, and concrete examples all to help the reader understand or even change their outlook on the internet and how it affects our daily lives. Nicholas Carr is an American non-fiction writer who was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, and was awarded the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual
Nicholas Carr, a writer and literature major, took the time to write his opinion about the new technologies and how they are shaping us today. He did this in his work “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”. Carr explores the changes technology has on the world and the way people think. He argues that “as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding
Is Google Making Us Stupid was written by technology and culture expert Nicholas Carr, whose works have been translated into more than 25 languages. Is Google Making Us Stupid? falls under the informative and technological education categories. Carr is educating his audience on the key ideas and supporting data from research and studies. This essay examines how we use technology, with a special emphasis on how the internet has altered how we read.
In his essay Is Google Making Us Stupid, Nicholas Carr argues that our dependence on the Internet changes the way we read and think. He includes his own personal testimony to support this claim, as well as others’ descriptions, including several friends, and bloggers that Carr quote. While he lacks scientific proof supporting his claim, multiple testimonies support his claim that the internet has changed the way people think. However, Carr views this negatively, saying that “I’m not thinking the way I used to think… my concentration often starts to drift… I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text” (633-634).
In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr argues how the internet is disrupting our critical thinking, concentration, and analytical skills. Also, Carr claims that the Net has become a universal medium that has changed the way we process information. Nicholas Carr begins by describing how he doesn’t think the way he used to, as well as how he struggles to deep read and engage with long passages. Although, Carr admits that browsing has become a convenience to easily access information, it interferes with his analytical thinking.
“My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing.” Nicholas Carr, a noted blogger and Pulitzer Prize winner, claims this in his article, Is Google Making us Stupid? He argues that humanity has adapted to a different type of thinking that is affecting individuals. Specifically, he feels as though he can no longer progress through a book with having difficulties concentrating. Only a few pages at a time are all he can get through before he feels the need to do other work.
The rise of the technological age has brought to pass the downfall of mindful and comprehensive reading. At least this is what Nicholas Carr believes, as stated in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”. He argues that because of the golden age of computers, in depth reading no longer occurs to the extent that it once did. According to Carr, people now simply skim and skip over articles instead of actually reading them in depth. Carr constructs his credibility by having a prestigious background, and citing academic sources.
With just a few keystrokes and a press of the enter key, Google connects users to the information they’re looking for. Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” explores the phenomenon that people will skim through articles and leave from one site to another. Carr in addition, adds in anecdotes of some of history's greatest inventions and how they similarly relate to the Web. Although the Internet has transformed the way we receive and send information, I feel as if the responsibilities of reading are simply left to us to find out because we take the information for granted. “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, is a 2008 article that delves into the strange finding that people seem to skip through articles and leave a trail of websites without actually understanding the material.
