Why Is Google Making USupid

The main issue is the debate over what his point actually is on this topic, and, therefore, he succeeds in educating his audience on the topic. Instead of telling them what he believes and influencing their perspectives, he provides them with the information needed to form their own opinions. The title of the article is "Is Google Making Us Stupid"; the title is not "Google Is Making Us Stupid." By phrasing the title in a question, it leaves the audience to answer the question. Carr's job in this article is to inform readers, not make decisions for them. He merely provides both sides of the argument and allows them to take what they are given and formulate their beliefs. By arguing for both sides, he easily appeals to all kinds of people reading his

In Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, he discusses the negative impacts that technology has had on human intelligence and how technology is going to pass up humankind. Carr’s main point is that point is that due to modern innovations like the internet, himself and the rest of mankind have slowly lost the ability to read in-depth and focus on complex tasks. He also argues that companies like google are working to create innovations in Artificial Intelligence, causing technology to eventually pass up humanity. Carr believes that technology is important, but it will eventually lead to our demise.

Nicholas Carr stated a couple true statements, but I disagree that google is making us stupid. In the article, Carr explained how reading has drastically increased throughout the years. He is indeed correct about this. During this generation, people rely on the internet to provide accurate essential facts, which one can gain valuable knowledge from. Those who skim through articles or never read a book due to losing concentration after reading three pages are not lacking intelligence, but lack ambition and motivation.

Carr gives Google credit where it is due, but he also accuses this plethora of easily accessible information of "chipping away [my] capacity for concentration and contemplation" (Carr 390). Being able to obtain any information at anytime does give people a reason to not store any knowledge or worry about remembering important things--if you forget something, you can just look it up again. It is easy to see how Carr considers this a negative effect of technology playing such a large role in

I kind of agree with him, although he made some valid points. He said that people are not interested as much in reading and how he finds himself skimming through articles that are more than few paragraphs. I also do find myself skimming through articles sometimes when it comes to reading the article. When I was back home, we didn’t had access to internet and we need to find something or do research about something we would go to the library and read a lot of books and try to find information that was required for the assignments. We even had to write it down on the paper because there were no computers as well. But when I came to United State everything was so different I learned about computer and how we can find any kind information by looking it up. In high school, everything was on the computer email, homework assignments and even presentations. As time pass by I did started noticing the difference I started using the computer more and paper less to form my thoughts because I felt it was to much. For example, Fredrich Nietzsche, a writer sometime in 1882, Carr explained Nietzsche got the typewriter when writing was becoming a huge task for him, until him and his friend started noticing the change in him “Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” It made me wonder that how I use to think when I was back home. I did notice change in me, as time pass by I stopped going to the library and started using google for every little information that I needed. As Carr mentioned ““Someone or something has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory.” I believe that it’s giving us all the answers that we need without even working hard for it. When we need something, or don’t understand something, the first thing people do is look up on the google and I also use google multiple times in a day. We can find so much

Towards the beginning of Carr’s essay he contradicted himself by saying, “Research that one required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.” (371) Within the next paragraph Carr states, “The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many.” It is not Google alone, nor just the Internet that we need to worry about, it’s the technological advancement overall. Throughout history people have criticized technological advancements, but look past the endless possibilities it created. Now we are only one click away from information that we need, instead of looking at the information that we use to carry inside our heads. Frederick Taylor created a system that created the best outcome for factories but the Internet is a machine designed for the best outcome, “the perfect algorithm, to carry out every mental movement of what we’ve come to describe as knowledge work.” (375)

What Nicholas Carr is saying in his essay “Is Google Making Us stupid?” is that when we depend on the internet, we tend to skim over long articles instead of taking our time reading the articles. When we skim over things we do not absorb as much information as we do when we take our time reading it. Part of the reason we skim over things that we read is that we get easily distracted and it makes it harder to concentrate. Depending on the internet has made it to where we do not use our brains as much to solve problems or think of new ideas. When you have access to the internet you depend on it for a lot of things and you do not use your brain as often to solve problems.

An article published in The Atlantic entitled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” criticizes to what effect the internet has on our cognition. Despite the title of the article, technology writer Nicholas Carr does not target Google specifically, but rather the World Wide Web as a whole; moreover, he attributes his recent troubles concentrating while reading books and more-lengthy articles to the long hours he has been spending on the internet.

I recently read Mr. Nicholas Carr's article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, and I must say I do agree with Carr somewhat, but I strongly disagree. In the beginning of the article, Carr states that a few years ago he could read in-depth and for pages on an Internet article. Now, he says, that he cannot help but “skim” through an article in seconds; he feels that Internet search engines like “Google” (I list it specifically hence the article's title) make information so very accessible and immediate that it damages his reading. Although I can sympathize for him, I can not say I empathize because I am a different person with a different way of reading and thinking.

Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr talks about the way technology is effecting

Nicholas Carr answers the question “Is Google making us stupid,” with claims and evidence from other individuals who have noticed a difference in their own reading, writing, and interpretation skills after spending too much time on the internet. Scanning quickly through online articles and skipping from link to link is what is leading individuals to a lack of deep reading and thought, as oppose to actually understanding and interpreting the text. By using other individuals personal experiences and evidence regarding the issue, Carr constructs the argument that Google, is indeed, making us stupid.

What is it about google/internet that we are so addicted to? In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr we learn that google/internet is something we us in everyday life. Google/internet is a resource that we go to when we can not find the answers we are looking for in a textbook. Google could be good if you do not have the right sources for work or when at home trying to make stuff. The bad thing about google is that everyone in this generation relies on google/internet too much to see what it is like to have fun and go out with friends. Nowadays kids just use their cell phones for everything, I do not remember that last time I saw a child pick up a book to read just for fun and not for school.

For over fifteen years, Google has placed countless amounts of information right at the fingertips of people all around the world. With this vast amount of information that Google provides, the opportunity to expand our intellect is very prominent. However, many believe that Google is actually hindering our intellect. In Nicholas Carr’s, Is Google Making Us Stupid, Carr evaluates the effect Google has on learning and acquiring knowledge, and argues that Google is, in fact, hindering our intellect. Google is making us stupid by replacing our own knowledge with an “artificial intelligence,” creates almost a self pride on various issues, and takes away from the value of opening your mind to reading a good book.

The article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is about an author, Nicholas Carr, who is an executive editor at Harvard University. Carr argues that the Internet is making us dumber. The article offers and opinion as opposed to a fact. The reader should keep in mind that this is not a factual or statement, even though the author argues as though his opinion is based on a fact.

Carr’s entire argument is how the internet is making the population weak minded, which is easily clearly arguable with the resources available to us now. Some examples of resources are online school, library databases, educational games, daily newspapers, and even books are now sold online and school is being provided online to be more accessible to us. The hyperlinks that Carr mentions in his article as we “power browse” (1), in fact the internet/google is more helpful in going further into a subject being studied. For instance if someone is trying to research a sickness, the search starts with google, entering the sickness which leads them to an article, possibly Wikipedia, then a hyperlink is introduced to a subject they aren’t educated on, one would read further to gain more helpful