Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

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.

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.

Is Google making us stupid? Nicholas Carr posed the question via “The Atlantic” in 2008 and received an uproar of feedback. His argument was that the internet might have detrimental effects on cognitive capacity. The article in itself, according to online critics, was targeted more at the World Wide Web than at Google, specifically. Throughout the six page piece, he argued that reading on the internet is a shallower comparison to putting your nose in a book. Since then, the topic has been widely debated.

“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is an article that contemplates whether or not google is good for the mind or if it is just making us dumb. They go on to talk about the typewriter and how in that period of time you had to think about what you said and you learned more because there was not internet. You did not read about something online but you read out of a book. Reading online is like reading in bits and pieces. When you read something from the internet you are learning the information in parts, you are not learning the whole story, but a sugar down version. The author (Nicholas Carr) feels that by using google or any internet site we are making our mind much more simple than what it could be. I agree with the fact that google is making us think less and talk differently. Carr says by using the internet for research or online reading we are making ourselves we are losing content, but if we pick up a book we will retain much more information.

As years pass by, technology takes over, giving quick solutions and plenty alternatives for "learning" . The problem or first resource of the current generation, so called Z , The Internet and the most common of all Google. Answers are given without the minimum research or effort. weakening the capacity of deep reading,learning and thinking turning the human brain into an "artificial intelligence" just as the author Nicholas Carr mentioned it in the article. In the process of learning, overcoming these distractions and shortcuts should be a priority. Spending more time investigating and acknowledging what is being asked for , not only in the education area, but also in the way people interact

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