Analysis: Is Google Making USupid?

This is shown by the article “Attached to Technology and Paying a Price” by Matt Richtel when he said “in 2008, people consumed three times as much information each day then they did in 1960.” Before smart phones and laptops people had to look it up in a library if they had a question now people can get it quicker and easier with the power of technology. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Nicholas Carr states, “The internet contains the world’s best writing, images, and ideas; Google lets us find the relevant pieces instantly.” This shows that if people didn’t have Google, the students would have to look harder to find information that they have the ability to get right at their

“Google is my best friend,” said many people in today’s world. Technology was made to make life much easier than it is, but is it really making easier or is it making people stupid? In the article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, author Nicholas Carr conveys a message to his readers on how he believes the internet is making people today stupid and how it is fake knowledge. Carr starts off with an explanation on how he feels while reading a book to get his readers to connect with him by letting his audience that he gets fidgety and zones out when reading and a lot of people can relate to this because they too can get fidgety and lose focus when reading a text. “For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the internet,” (3). Carr goes to talk about his life surrounding the internet and how it brings upon the issues that he has when it comes to reading a single text. Carr uses many rhetorical devices such as imagery and personal experience to draw his readers in to inform and

In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” by Nicholas Carr, he stresses that the internet, as helpful as it is, is affecting him negatively. Throughout the essay, Carr expresses how the internet has changed him. His stress on the claim shows that he feels like the internet has made him a lazy reader because of how the internet is set up. Carr explains that it is so simple for people to find what you’re looking for that it takes no effort to find information. Carr believes that the internet is why he now has trouble reading lengthy articles. He feels like he is a slower reader and would often have to drag himself back to the text that he was reading.

The article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” by Nicholas Carr provides the argument that the internet has turned traditional reading into passive reading that prevents deep-thoughts and intellectual growth. Carr believes that being able to sift through extensive amounts of research and noteworthy articles online in a couple of minutes has turned us into passive readers. He explains that not having to spend time searching for information from books has given us a new habit where we quickly sift through information online and miss or forget many important details. Carr claims that the internet has taken his ability to stay focused and have deep thoughts. He explains that his mind expects quick and efficient passive reading to learn new information. I agree with this claim because just as Carr explains, I also feel as if “someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain.”

Google is something that made people’s life easier. It’s the search engine that delivers useful information about anything. Most of the time people will google to find information that they need without even figuring it out by themselves first. Internet is affecting us in a negative without us even noticing. Now days’ technology is so advanced that we have access to internet everywhere like cellphones, laptops, and computers. Google is changing the way we process information it’s changing the way we think. Technology is effecting our mental abilities and we don’t put much effort in our researches, which is convincing the danger of the technology and internet.

In, “Is Google Really Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr (2008), he validates how people are heavily relying on the internet pushing for Artificial Intelligence. Carr also talks about how it is changing the way our minds work with negative side effects. He demonstrates how the internet may be shaping our thought process by giving observational examples as well as personal experiences. Beginning with his personal experiences he says how he finds it difficult to keep focused on a book, as a writer, this is rare to him. He tries to find a reason to his inability to stay focused and comes to a conclusion it is due to the internet. Carr is very persuasive in his article, although his point of view maybe seen as an opinion, he does show and support

As I read the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicolas Carr, I cannot help but see the influence of how internet use can affect your thinking ability and create a negative effect on how think. We can use the internet for all sorts of resources in our daily lives but, the problem is that nobody puts the work in anymore and is finding the fastest way to get the “A,” while not grasping the concept resulting in them not being knowledgeable in their field of work. By them just skimming instead of understanding, they are not fully learning. For example, many of us can look at something and not remember what it was that we looked at the following day. This paper will be discussing the pros and cons of Nicolas Carr’s thoughts on Google, and how the search engine turned GPS, email, and so on is affecting the brains of today.

In Nicholas Carr’s article entitled, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” he explains that the up rise of computers, and technology, has taken a toll on the former ability to read and understand what is being read. Suddenly, what was once so simple is now a prolonged, agonizing task which readers like Carr have experienced. The infamous internet has become the basis for information people seek to collect. Personally, I think Carr’s interpretation of the increase in technology is most accurate when referring to the overtake of artificial intelligence, the inability to read small to large amounts of written work, and the obvious change in the way we think as a person.

I am sitting on the train, reading the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” on my laptop while listening to latest hip-hop music, typing up my essay and drinking my morning coffee. I take a moment to acknowledge how easier my life is because I rely on technology to do most of my work. I quickly glance out the window to see that I still have three more stops before I have to get off. As I regain my focus back to my laptop, I notice an old woman sitting next to me writing in her notebook. I notice the book contains her daily plans, and say to myself “Wow someone needs a reality check! It’s the twenty-first century for goodness sake!” I carry on with my work until the train conductor announces “Next Stop Temple University”. I begin gathering

According to the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, the Internet is beginning to change how people’s brains work. He states that reading articles online can remap how the brain functions. It has become harder for people to read a lengthier article due the brain’s capacity of obtaining the information. Minds begin to drift away after reading only a couple of pages and some people would not even bother to read a long article. The reasoning for all of this is that the media, including the Internet, is giving them all the answers that they need. Due to this, people are relying more on the Internet to obtain their information instead of their intelligence. Nickolas Carr argues in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” that the ability to focus and understand is being reduced by the Internet.

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.

How often do you use Google, Bing, or any other internet search engine on a daily basis? Each time you search for something you are bombarded with information, constantly absorbing said information. Nicholas Carr, author of the article “Google Is Making Us Stupid,” states that Google is changing the way he and many others think. However, with the constant influx of information presented in a Google search, our brains have the option to expand and retain more information than ever before. Access to these search engines provides us with a breadth of information never before conceived. If there is anything on any subject that you want to know,

In his 2008 article, “Is Google making us stupid”, Nicholas Carr makes the claim that the use of the internet is having a detrimental effect on people’s cognition. That by having our attentions constantly interrupted our brains are being rewired causing our attention spans to be shortened and reducing our ability to contemplate on what we are reading. He offers his own experiences with reading printed books and articles and the decline of his concentration and contemplation. While Carr makes some interesting claims, he misses the idea that the internet is not changing our brains in a negative way but is allowing us to free our thoughts. This change could result in reducing the need to retain minor or inconsequential data and it

When you have a question, need to look up a fact, or need help with research where do you go? Google. Google is always there to help you and solve all your problems. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid.” briefly talks about how Nicholas Carr lost most of his concentration and focus while writing. Using google, or the net in general is a convenient tool that makes everyone's life easier. Since its quick and easy to get what you’re looking for through the internet, it’s made Nick’s ability to read a long article and understand it harder. As he spends time writing, he ends up getting fidgety, loses his train of thought, and wants to be doing something else. Deep reading normally comes natural to people, but for Nick, it has now became

Andrew Brown once said, “The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.” However is that truly the case with today’s technology, is the internet pointless. It is possible however the internet offers education and learning opportunities but again does the good outweigh the bad. Well that is a matter of prospective. In Nickolas Carr prospective it does not, this can be based off of reading “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by him. In the article he shows proof of his beliefs and ideals within his main statements. An example of one is when he talks about his focus issues, and how he can no longer be completely immersed in a book because he starts to fidgety while reading. He then talks