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Is Google Making USupid Analysis

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Effects of Google on the Mind: Is it Helping Us or Hurting Us?

In a society where computers are used on a daily basis, is there a chance that Google is affecting our minds in a negative way? Nicholas Carr, who has written many articles on technology, business, and culture, argues that the use of Google is steadily making us less intelligent. Although, in most aspects most people may agree with what Carr is saying, but where is the experimental evidence that shows if Google is actually making us stupid? The argument that Carr presents in "Is Google Making Us Stupid" is difficult to fully side with considering he fails to present actual evidence, while relying only on his assumptions from his own experiences, and the viewpoints of other writers.

Carr's evidence in the article states that "they found that people using the sites exhibited 'a form of skimming activity,' hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to a source they had already visited" which he gathered from a study that was performed by University College London (738). Although, this is reliable evidence since it was a study that the University College London preformed, throughout the rest of the article where are the other studies that show the effects of Google and reading online? Even though some may agree with some of the …show more content…

On what evidence is he basing this claim? And where are the statistics showing us the number of people that are experiencing these phenomena? Unfortunately, he explains that we are still awaiting the long-term neurological and psychological experiments that will provide a definite picture of how the internet affects us, which makes it tough to believe his assumptions (Carr 737). This statement raises the questions; is every person using a computer experiencing these phenomena or is it just the people that are using it an unhealthy

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