Summary Of Is Google Really Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

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Is google really making us stupid? Author Nicholas Carr fears that the internet “Google” is becoming a commodity. What does this mean and why is he concerned? As stated Carr feels that society uses google as commodity, suggesting that the internet was created to make browsing fast and profitable, and this later caused a lack of tolerance to read. Carr is concerned that our attention span and critical thinking skills are being ignored in the process.
“Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes”. Due to advancements in technology caused many of us to skim opposed to reading. Though this can be very convenient to the average person it also organizes poor reading habits. If we’re all …show more content…

When mentioning my troubles with reading to friends and acquaintances, literary types, most of them- many say they’re having similar experiences”. Carr pinpoints how the internet has affected our brains externally when we’re not able to read extended pieces of material without easily getting distracted. As indicated within the text Carr, along with many of us are not the only ones who have struggled with a short attention span, other scholars such as Bruce Friedman has similar concerns. Friedman was one of many supporters of Carr’s conclusion, spending an extended length of time could change the way many of us read today. I do concuragree with Carr’s conclusion that the internet has lowered our capacity to think, let alone reading any text longer than a page would be considered too much to absorb from the average person.I often find myself agreeing with Carr’s belief, mainly because of how frequently I notice that I have spent a profuse amount most of my time hovering over my laptop skimming many topics, but unable to form a deeper understanding or relation to any of the topics without being distracted. As for many others who haves created this sense of “newer type of self-evolving” feeling pressed to overload enormous amounts of information from the

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