Argument Analysis: Is Google Making USupid

“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 Nicholas Carr’s, “Is google making us stupid,” Carr indicates a problem that affects a majority of the internet users; that being as time we spend on the internet increases, the more we are diminishing our intellectual ability, and loosing the ability to become intertwined in a lengthy article or an extended book. He is suggesting that the technology we are in contact with on a daily basis, has a negative effect on our cognitive ability, and is forcing our brain’s to evolve. Throughout the article, Carr argues the negative effect media, mainly the internet, is having on his capacity and concentration: he effectively argues his point through the uses of many rhetoric appeals, that draw in the reader. His use of logos, compares the past and

In this book the Shallows Nicholas Carr explains what the internet is doing to our brains. He explains in great detail how , sometimes he is a little long winded. But he usually gets his point out at one point. Honestly I was lost on a few parts of the book. So that was enjoyable at all. The parts I did understood was great. I actually was learning exactly what the internet is doing to our brains. And it made me stop and think, should I stop doing the things i’m doing on the internet. I related with a lot of things Carr said throughout the book. I realized that I used Google way too much. In the book Carr asks, Is Google making us stupid?. At first I thought about this question I answered no. Then later on as I was working on vocabulary instead

Is Google making us stupid? That is a fascinating question with a not so simple answer. Nicholas Carr does a fantastic job of expressing his skepticism about Google; However, he does not bring much in the way of facts, uses broad speculation and relies on a few thoughts of others to bring his skepticism to light. Carr is not very convincing in his manner of trying to reach the rest of the world with his message that Google is hurting us rather than helping us.

In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, by Nicholas Carr, he describes the correlation between Internet usage and common reading abilities. While informing the audience about the decreasing reading habits and the power of the Net.

He first starts out his article by calling Carr’s article out about all of the statements that he believes are wrong. The first point he makes is that the internet is one of the best uses of technology. Prior to the use of the internet, anyone who wanted to learn something new would have to sit in a library for many hours, but now you can learn the same thing on a smartphone in a fraction of the time. The uses of all different types of technology is also helping humans become better multitaskers. Both Greg and Carr believe that humans are not good at multitasking, but Greg thinks people are still not that bad at it. He thinks that using many forms of technology is helping younger kids learn and become better at multitasking than older people. Lastly he talks about how people are scared to start to embracing technology because it will take people away from having a face to face conversation with someone else, but the printing press got the same comments about it when it first came out too. So he thinks that technology is changing and people need to be onboard with it and they cannot stop

Technology, especially the Internet, makes humans’ life easier and more effective. A quick access to information brings people a huge opportunity to explore the world and develop them. However, Nicolas Carr, in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” argues that technology affects people’s life, it changes their mind and actions, and humans start to lose abilities of “deep thinking and deep reading”, which are essential skills of being humans. In other words, our world becomes more simplified that people are unable to be smart and creative as they were in the past. For him, today’s people think and act in the frame of programmed world of the Net. Moreover, although Carr worries that the Net based corporations, such as Google, are seeking to replace human’s

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

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

I found the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? “, written by Elizabeth Carr, very interesting (Carr, 2005). I enjoyed how it provided different examples of the increased dependency on technological advances in today's society. This increased dependency has also cause an increased demand for the ability to have access to the internet in almost any place; you can now have a car that has a continuous connection to an internet source so you’re never off the grid.

In any discussion of the internet, one controversial issue is that the internet is causing more harm than good. On the one hand, Nicholas Carr, writer of “Is Google making us Stupid?” argues that it has caused damaging effects to his brain and memory. On the other hand, Mr. Carr contends that there are many blessings that come with the internet. My own view is mixed as well. The internet can begin to answer virtually any question I may have. However, I have notice the attention span of the people around me is slowly decreasing. With Google doing most of the thinking for us we are no longer forced to memorize thing. So when it comes to the internet are we really losing or winning?

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.

This day in age, technology is more present in our lives than it’s ever been. Every day we constantly check our phones, emails, tablets, and even smart watches. These devices have opened doors that we previously didn't even know existed. They are outlets to unlimited knowledge from all over the world. Although many people, including me, have grown up with these commodities, they are still extremely new. Home computers have only been mainstream for 20 years or so, while smartphones have only been mainstream for about 5 years! What all this leads itself to, is that we are just now able to observe the way this new technology and instant access to knowledge can affect our brain. Author, Nicholas Carr, believes that the world’s largest search engine, Google, has molded our brains to be incapable of deep thought, and that it also even makes us stupid.

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

In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to our Brains,” Nicholas Carr argues that the internet has altered, possibly not in a good way, how people use their cognitive mind. Today, most everyone is getting on a computer and using the internet to do research, read an article, or scan the news in all its forms. They don’t realize that how they now read and research, with the use of the internet, has weakened their mind cognitively. The Internet, according to the author, is modifying the way that people read and take in knowledge through their senses.