Information Technology Pros And Cons

Are you at an age where you can remember a time before the internet, where you would have to search through stacks of books or encyclopedias to find the information that you want? Some of you may be thinking “Yes, thank god for google!” and others may be thinking “Oh, the horror! I can’t imagine surviving without it!”. But there are the few that reminisce about the time when you couldn’t find whatever information you were looking for in a matter of minutes. Unlike many, Tim Kreider looks back on the times before the internet with fondness, and thinks that our easy access to information has had some negative side effects. While Kreider raises some interesting and valid points in his article, “In Praise of Not Knowing” there are still some

New technology around the world is being developed and improved every day to make people's life easier. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Nicholas Carr explains his thoughts and beliefs on how he feels that the internet, especially google is making people rely more on the web to find information and making them full with artificial knowledge. The author begins his article by explaining personal side effects that he has experience due to the use of the web, like losing focus, not being able to deeply understand a book anymore, and the reasons why he gets distracted when reading. The author then talks furthermore about his life being surrounded by the internet and how it is to blame the web for the issue that he has experience; but then he explains how and why the internet has been “godsend” to him because of his profession as a writer. In order to draw

Among the era of rapid development of science and technology, information technology, which is internet influences our lives, studies, and communications and works in every moment. We could use the internet to look for the required knowledge and help anytime we needed. In his essay "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"Nicholas Carr uses his personal experience and research results to illustrate the impact internet create on its user. Although the title of the statement mentions the influence created by the searching engine, Google, the article also has describes some subtle changes that have happened on human brain and body during the progress of the technology. As a web writer, the author is

In his essay, “Is Google Making us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr discusses societies dependence to easily accessible information. Since the inception of the internet and search engines, information has been accessible to us instantly. Although instant access to information is a desirable advancement in technology, it comes with questionable consequences. From his own personal experience, Carr explains that since this invention, his brain feels as if it has been tinkered with. Carr explains that his brain does not work the way it used to, that it’s very hard for him to become engrossed in books, articles, or essays. As he continued to try to become engrossed in these readings, he found that his thoughts would wander and he would become restless after just a few

More importantly, she mainly covers why Google is the most efficient search engine and how it operates more accurately than other engines and Web browsers. Kraft shares the same positive outlook on Google as the preferred search engine as is evidenced in this paper.

Carr gives Google credit where it is due, but he also accuses this plethora of easily accessible information of "chipping away [my] capacity for concentration and contemplation" (Carr 390). Being able to obtain any information at anytime does give people a reason to not store any knowledge or worry about remembering important things--if you forget something, you can just look it up again. It is easy to see how Carr considers this a negative effect of technology playing such a large role in

First, this struggle starts out with just a want of convenience. Many people want convenience so they turn to technology. More often than not, I find myself reaching for my phone for pretty much everything. Recently I was trying to figure out how to pronounce a word. Instead of finding a dictionary or just asking someone I got my phone out and googled it. I don’t go to the books much anymore. I just reach for what I have on hand, which is always my phone. Also, Carr states, “The advantages of having immediate access to such and incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded” (Carr 589). He gives his readers a sense of just how much information there is to be had and how it is there in a flash when we need it. There is really no waiting around for information anymore when it is there immediately. Another example of how we turn to convenience is the digital

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.

The web is a worldwide PC organize giving an assortment of data, permitting individuals the simplicity of gets to and productivity of finding the information they crave, however there are a few disadvantages to the web. In the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid" the writer Nicholas Carr's subject on the web is that the data that is expressed to is so efficient and effective to information that our minds don’t processes as well as retain the knowledge thrown at us. Carr contends that the web is rewiring his cerebrum. The way Carr believes is divergent, making basic considering, breaking down, and revealing verifiable dialect in the content exceptionally troublesome. He fears that the web make us lose the not just the capacity to hold the information

The internet has become a powerful part in today’s society. It has been reported that over 3 billion people use and interact with the internet. With this maximum use of technology, it is expected that some change will occur in the way people act or think. Nicholas Carr, an experienced writer on technology and its problems, discusses this change in his article “Is Google making us Stupid?” His discussion is well backed up, and I agree with his ideas that Google, or the internet in general, is changing the way we think.

Nowadays, if a young adult hears about a new terminology, instead of going to a library and looking it up in an encyclopedia like what his or her parents would do when they were young, he or she will pull out his or her smartphone and “google” it. Thanks to Google and all other commercial Internet companies, we are closer to all kinds of information, both useful and useless knowledge, than any other time in human history. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, more than acknowledging the great opportunities which the Internet has brought, Carr brings up his own concern that “the Net is chipping away [his] capacity for concentration and contemplation.” (589) He points out the Net is “tinkering

Being able to instantly gather information is easier than it has ever been before. People can go on the internet, press a few buttons and are given an endless amount of information. Do not anything about the topic, just Google it and it will provide the information that is needed. It has come to the point where people rely on the internet daily. However, there are downsides to having technology surrounding society most of the time. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” from the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic, Nicholas Carr, a writer and former member of Britannica’s Encyclopedia editorial board of advisors, expresses how technology is negatively changing how we think and act because of the influences people get from the technology

People are introduced to a new technological advancement almost everyday. Some of them make our lives easier; however, every good thing has a bad side. Some influential events may be causes of really adverse effects on the way of our lives. Without doubt, invention of the Internet is one of the most powerful events world-wide. Thanks to the Internet, lots of things such as communication, research, bank transactions, shopping, etc. can be done within just a couple of seconds. While the Internet provides us these incredible conveniences, some negates would be inevitable on people. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, published by The Atlantic Magazine, in 2008, Nicholas Carr talks about these adverse affects of the Internet. He claims that the internet is changing our research habits and the way we reach information in a negative manner.

He states that there isn’t a single library that has everything in their collection and it is possible for libraries to share between one another. In digital libraries, the collaboration between libraries is different. They assign key words using controlled vocabulary, classification schemes, and other to describe the content. However, this does yield as a problem. Sometimes keywords don’t match between libraries, or a word that a user would consider for the content not match the keyword the librarian had given it. Zaveri suggests the idea of collaborative tagging as a solution to the loss of connection between users and digital libraries. Zaveri then discusses reasons for digital library collaboration from lack of funds, specialization, to data preservation, and role of the country in the world, as digital libraries don’t have a boundary like physical libraries. Because of this importance, Zaveri states it’s necessary to have the users also assign keywords and tags through collaborative tagging. Zaveri continues with discussing the benefits of collaborative tagging, the main one being that what the user tags, the organization of information is shared with other users and they are able to look for that object with that tag. There are then several example of social media sites that use collaborative tagging discussed: Flickr, Delicious, and LibraryThing. Zaveri then compares LibraryThing’s tagging to the LSCH subject headings, which shows that certain terms are used differently between the pair mainly the vocabulary used to identify. Zaveri ends his article with the advantages and disadvantages of collaborative tagging, stating that libraries should include folksonomies to be made more interactive with the users that are in the digital

When reviewing the EBSCO help tools it explains that even in a basic search there are still search options. Help tools similarly explain, options for selecting phrases, choosing AND/OR, and even turn on a smart text search, which leverages technology to conduct the best results. Without limiting the search a basic search of mobile banking turns up 11,081 items. This is a much smaller pool than what ProQuest brought up, however, EBSCO seems to be more business focused and also lists, newspapers, magazines, trade publications and videos.