Is Google Making USupid Summary

Nicholas Carr’s Is Google Making Us Stupid? explains the impact the Internet is having on his (and others) patience with in depth reading habits, and possibly the way their brain is processing information. The old days of having to spend hours researching a subject are long gone because of the Internet. Having such a powerful tool available at any time can be a good and bad thing wrapped up in the same package. Over the last couple decades, home computer and smartphone ownership has been on a steady rise with most homes now having multiple devices. Therefore, having unlimited information available at all times has become a reality.

Although its intention was to nourish our minds with an instant unlimited source of valuable information, the internet has caused some people to lose their appreciation for long texts and their ability to concentrate. Within the essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, the author feels that someone has been tinkering with his brain and that he can no longer enjoy reading a book of any length because he cannot sustain concentration on the book (Carr 1). This is a result of the fact that when people use the internet to find information, they habituate themselves to skim along the lines to quickly allocate their answers and once they have gotten what they needed, they close the browser without any further analysis of the information.

In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Nicholas Carr expresses his beliefs and personal experiences on how the internet has altered our brains and how we think. He addresses the fact that, although our brains’ abilities to deep read and concentrate are suffering, the internet is extremely beneficial and convenient. Because of the easy accessibility, it takes little to no effort to find information, and therefore, a minimal amount of thinking is required. Carr highlights that people are more impatient because of the internet and that our minds are becoming more erratic. The author used research, conducted by a U.K. educational consortium, to show that a new form of reading is developing over time; rather than reading every word on a page, it has turned to more of a skimming method. Nicholas Carr realizes that we may be doing more reading than ever due to the internet, but it is different in the way that people have to interpret the text. Reading, unlike talking, is not a natural ability. One must learn to deep read, make connections, and translate the underlying meaning. Overall, Carr believes it is a mistake to rely fully on computers because in the end, it will just be our own intelligence that morphs into artificial intelligence.

In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”, Nicholas Carr points out the fact that google is affecting our brains. He explains how being able to access information more quickly is minimizing the amount of thinking we have to do on our own and therefore preventing our brain to do deep thinking. On the second paragraph the author says, “I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it more strongly when I’m reading”. I strongly agree with the author’s point because when I used to live in the Dominican Republic I didn’t have access to google and had to go to the library and check out books to do my homework assignments. I wasn’t intimidated by the length of the reading and was able to find the

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

In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr the thesis of the article is internet technology is altering our thought process. His article was featured in the Atlantic in 2008. In the article, Nicholas Carr says that he is not thinking the same and he cannot read like he used to. Now he loses concentration after reading two or three pages. He thinks this is happening because he has been spending a lot of time online. People can find things easily with Google so they do not have to look for it as much. Before people had to go to libraries to search for information but now they can just look for it online. His friends and acquaintances also said they are having similar problems. He says the longer people use the Web the harder it is for them to concentrate.

The internet that so many of us have come to depend on is a vast trove of information that is readily available to all of us. Having access to all of that information is an amazing thing but we should also consider what we may be loosing because of the way that we consume that information. Is reading these short bites of information one after another causing us to loose the ability to actually focus on one longer piece of text and contemplate its meaning? This is the question that Nicholas Carr looks at in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”

As the internet offers us the benefits of quick and easy knowledge, it is affecting the brain’s capacity to read longer articles and books. Carr starts Is Google Making Us Stupid with the closing scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey when Dave taking apart the memory circuits that control HAL, the artificial brain of the ship. Carr feels the time he spends online is rewiring his brain. He is no longer able to concentrate long enough to read more than a few paragraphs. Even though the internet is useful, it seems to be changing the way our brain takes in information. He feels as though this brain wants to take information in the same way the internet disperses it: in

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

In the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" By: Nicholas Carr he writes about how the internet helps him but as a result he can no longer read and concentrate for long periods of time like he used to “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle. I think I know what’s going on. 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” As a result of getting all of this technology and the convenience it gives us we may be losing our ability to read and concentrate for a long time as Carr said and it's not just him I myself have also noticed that I get distracted by technology and find it hard to concentrate for long periods of time too.

The internet is our conduit for accessing a wide variety of information. In his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr discusses how the use of the internet affects our thought process in being unable to focus on books or longer pieces of writing. The author feels that “someone, or something, has been tinkering with [his] brain” over the past few years (Carr 731). While he was easily able to delve into books and longer articles, Carr noticed a change in his research techniques after starting to use the internet. He found that his “concentration often [started] to drift after two or three pages” and it was a struggle to go back to the text (Carr 732). His assertion is that the neural circuits in his brain have changed as a

With the internet becoming more and more versatile, many people are relying it on for many different functions. Before the internet, researching or passing time would be by cracking open up a book to see what words within had to say. This, however, has changed because of the introduction of search engines such as Google. This search engine allows the user to find the topic and answers to their question just by typing them in. This allows the individual to scan through dozens of sties and articles to find the information that they need. With a book, we’d have to read word after word in order to find the necessary information, but with online articles, we can quickly skim, trying to process only what we think is important. This has caused our brain to change the way we read and concentrate. Once able to read whole books in a few hours, we are now able to barely read a page or two before our concentration is steered elsewhere. This lack of concentration can be an effect of the internet. With multiple distractions and people skimming everything they read, we tend to lose concentration on reading or any other tasks that we may be doing. As humans we tend to lean towards the more efficient route and the internet allows to be as efficient as possible. In reading, in

They concluded that people skim from one source to another and rarely return to a previously visited website. The researchers commented that “it almost seems that [people] go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense” (Carr par. 7). This research failed to conclude how people tend to read traditionally. Do readers skim news articles or printed text books the way the bounce around a website article, or is the brain only developing around technology itself? Carr insists that the media has encouraged such fast-past intake of knowledge around ads and pop-ups, but those do not appear in a textbook (par. 18). There is a difference, but it all seems to run together in Carr’s

I read your essay ‘Google is making us stupid’ and it was a very challenging and impressive piece of writing which led me to think about the purpose of your essay. The purpose of this writing is based on facts, examples and evidences. It explains how Google or the internet itself is changing the way we process information. Personally, I think the main argument of your essay is how the internet gives bad influences to our reality today and how internet may have negative effects on the human mind. This article is so well organized in a way that the audience can’t deny your arguments. The reason that I’m writing a letter to you is to appreciate your work, and the way you taught us how internet has a bad influence on us. It was a good idea to tell people about the danger of over-using internet based on the audiences’ and your experience. As I experience the same situation right now, I strongly agree that internet really disturbs my studies a lot. While studying, it is a habit to use my phone. Therefore, I lose my concentration, and would have to finish my

Throughout the years, the most influential development in technology is undoubtedly the internet, one of the most widely known products of the internet being Google. Google is the search engine that has made it significantly easier to to find information, and at a much faster pace. With google, news and other information sites are easily accessible to any American with a smartphone, computer, or is capable of visiting a public library-practically everyone. This may sound beneficial, like a wonderful opportunity for our world to learn and gain knowledge, however, Nicholas Carr argues otherwise. Carr says the fast pace that google, and other internet products sets on our learning, and information gathering processes has shortened humans’ attention spans. With this development, Carr states that “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.” (Carr, 2). Carr, as well as a reasonable amount of others, believe going