to read Nicholas Carr’s whole article, first however before I make my claim I’d like to say reading this entire article from beginning to end was a struggle, I found myself bored and uninterested, not that the article was the least bit boring or uninteresting I just couldn’t concentrate. I was waiting for a friend to reply to a message, I wanted to see what was happening on twitter and I desperately wanted to see the welcome week photos my friends had been posting on Instagram. One of Carr’s worries
Nicholas Carr Claimed that the internet affects our information processing. Carr backed up his argument by speaking with a wide array of educated and reputable people like friends, colleagues, a blogger, GMU and a professor making his argument validity greater. Carr admits that he and his friends also; have the same problem by saying that he was appealing to emotions by using Ethos. Carr gives a very well researched report of how the writing on the internet is deemed to cause the browsing experience
Does the Internet lessen our ability to think for ourselves? Not just the ability to think for ourselves, but the capacity for deep, contemplative thought. Nicholas Carr’s article Is Google Making Us Stupid?, which was first published in The Atlantic on July 1, 2008, asked us to consider this controversial question. Ease of access to information can provide enormous advantages, that can’t be denied. While Mr. Carr does admit that there are numerous benefits that technology brings us, he argues
Nicholas Carr’s Is Google Making Us Stupid? is a great overview of the impact the internet is having on his, and others; life, brain, and habits. The old days of having to research a subject for hours to fully understand it is long gone. Having such a powerful tool available at any time can be a good and bad thing wrapped up in the same package. Home computer and smartphone ownership has been on a steady rise over the last couple decades, therefore, having information available at all times is hard
Each and everyday around the world there are new advances in technology attempting to make life more simple. In the article by Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Carr explains his beliefs on how the internet is causing mental issues in today's society. Carr starts with his own opinion, he says the Internet is causing him to lose focus quickly. He cannot stay hooked to a book. He writes about his life being surrounded by the internet and how it has created problems, like not being able
Is digital technology making us dumb? Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid” questions the motif of technology and if it is making us smarter or if it has made us so dependent on technology and its facility to do things that we are losing our own ability. Carr asserts “my mind expects to take in information the way the net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles… The more they use the web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing,” to emphasize the
Technology is evolving by the minute. It started a new and easier way of living, but is it decreasing our mental ability to adapt new information? In Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” He said “In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters “cease to exercise their memory and become
In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” by Nicholas Carr argues that google is indeed making us stupid. Carr first introduces his argument stating: “the more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing,”(Carr 315). But right after introducing his personal opinion, he mentions the opinions of other bloggers and scholars that think the internet has indeed had that effect on them. But, in order to order to prove his argument, Carr relied on evidence derived
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. Carr makes
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. Technology can be captivating to the mind. Nicholas Carr made an incredible statement that hugely related to my life. In the essay “Is google making us