Google Effect: Is Technology Making USupid

Most Americans use the internet daily. Although it is very useful, it is also very hurtful to the brains of everyone. Nicholas Carr goes into detail about why he feels this way in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”. This article mentions researches and opinions from not only Carr, but from outsiders as well. Carr explains his reasons on why he feels the internet has limited the knowledge of everyone. The main reason that Carr argues is that our brains have the ability to reprogram themselves due to the use of the internet and I agree with him because we do not dig into books like in the past, we get on our social medias instead, however, I disagree with him because computers and the internet have helped the world tremendously with technology

In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” written by Nicholas Carr, Implies that Google is making us lazy and I do agree when Carr points out and states “And what the next seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.” In this statement alone Carr is implying that the unlimited resources of information that Google and other web search engines are providing right down to our fingertips is making our mind lazy, and we no longer need to concentrate on physically searching for that information like we used to before the Internet by going to libraries, and read books, or search through newspapers and articles.

Over the years, technology has developed into something that we cannot live without. Society is constantly being dictated and reshaped by the newest technology. In Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, he expounded on the uncomfortable sense that someone, or something was tinkering with his brain. He realized that he’s not thinking the way he used to. Additionally, he explains how our brains aren’t familiar with critical thinking anymore. He also introduces the idea that the Internet is doing more harm to us than good. I believe Carr’s ideas on the negative effects of the Internet are well founded. The validity surrounds us daily.

The uses of technology like computers and cell phones are growing every day with new uses and forms. There are mixed feelings about if technology is making us smarter or stupider thru out day to day life. Nicolas Carr a New York Times writer wrote an article about “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and he tries to show people that computers are making our lives simpler and there for making us as humans stupid. Another writher that goes by the name Greg is a writer for digitaltonto.com, and he found the previous article and wrote “How Computers Change the Way We learn” which is about how all lot of the facts in Carr article could have been read to say anything that the author wanted, so he could make people believe.

In “Is Google Make Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr explains the worrisome signals that the Net is creating between the humanity. This article was published in July/August 2008 issue of the Atlantic, contains 16 pages that covering different points of view from bloggers or historical famous. The purpose of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is to persuade educators as well as the public about how the Net is affecting the personal intellect.

In one second; 58,779 web pages were searched; 68,166 YouTube videos viewed; 2,564,746 email sent; 766 Instagram pictures posted; and 7,513 tweets tweeted(Lee). Day to day, the Internet is becoming an important part of daily life, but it comes with a price. Some people think the Internet makes us less efficient thinkers. In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” Nicholas Carr asserts that the Internet is distracting, and it changes the way we think. I did not agree with Carr that the Internet affects our ability to think efficiently before reading the article; however, I know think that it has negative impacts on our contemplation, and I agree that artificial intelligence will

In his essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, author Nicholas Carr discusses his belief that the internet is negatively changing the way people’s brains process and consume information. Carr describes this phenomenon when he writes, “as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence” (328). Carr’s point is that the less effort put into reading and researching caused by societies constant access to the internet, lessens deep thinking and mental growth, which in turn results in a loss of individualism in our society. Incidentally, in his article, “Smarter than you Think”, writer Clive Thompson agrees with Carr’s statement by saying, “Today’s multitasking tools really do make it harder than before to stay focused during long acts of reading and contemplation” (355). However, Thompson goes on to argue that the benefits humans derive from the advancements being made in technology outweigh the possible risks in changes to cognitive functions caused by the melding of man with machine. Thompson builds his argument by examining how the game of chess has evolved

In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr (2008), the author talks about how the internet affects our life in many ways. He states his argument, “And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation” (4). People associate with the internet everyday as a daily habit, but they do not know that it is slowly changing their life in some ways such as our reading behavior, attention and an actual knowledge people have.

With technology on the rise, I see more and more of the human population with their heads buried in their phones. A few of the reasons why they allow the weight of their head to stoop down low is Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Gmail, Google, and Snapchat just to name a few. As my girlfriend would say, who does Kahala Mall’s marketing, “everything is heading in the direction of social media. If you are not with social media you are not with it.” Keep in mind, as she is stating this, I am barking at the fact that she is constantly on her phone. In Nicholas Carr’s essay Is Google Making Us stupid: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains he argues that the internet, technology, and the forces of Google, is changing the way we think. Not only does

Over the course of years technology has expanded tremendously. In the beginning being in the library trying to look up information was the norm. Now in the 20th century everything is literally at our fingertips. Google has become a necessity for many people. For example, if a computer came without google or and other search engine would a person still buy it. Would they be willing to go and take the time to do research elsewhere? Is the dependency of google and the internet in general affecting our everyday thinking and how we run our lives? Nicholas Carr and a few others questioned this theory.

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.

In the article “Does Tech Make Us Stupid? the author Genevieve Roberts presents different views of the effect of technology on our memory. Roberts obtains these views through the results of various studies performed in universities and by quoting a collection of books she has read. Roberts states that the use of technology has caused our memory to deteriorate therfore promoting a dependency on technology to retrieve information.

In Nicholas Carr's article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” the point he is trying to make is that the internet has become the worlds main source of information and entertainment, and its starting to effect how people read and how fast they can find and interpret information. The author states that even though internet makes the process much faster and more efficient it makes our brains miss the learning curve that helps us fully understand the deep and thought provoking novels or articles.

Technology is as intelligent as the human brain. Phones, for example, are a main piece of technology in today's world. “The number of active mobile devices and human beings crossed over somewhere around the 7.19 Billion mark.” That fact is about how many people in the world have a cell phone and use it at least once in their everyday life. Cell phones and other technology has helped our brains

Many believe that technology has given our generation many new opportunities that have never been given to any generation before us, and it continues to do so. It provides us with what we might call a “Perfect World.” New and advanced technology in the coming years may help track our thoughts, improve better decision making, may be enhance our physical and intellectual traits all together. With the present and emerging technology, that will create our “Perfect World”, there are questions and concerns to the evolution of human’s physical, cognitive and social skills. But the truth of the matter is that as humans only learn through what we have gained with effort, therefore humans are devolving as we involve more with technology, because we are drowning in information that is can not be comprehend by us, we are getting too distracted by the different technology around us and the side effect of cognitive decline is apparent in today’s generation