Is Google Making USoopid?: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brain By Nicholas Carr

In his article, “Is google making us Stoopid?: What the internet is doing to our brains,” Nicholas Carr describes the effects of the internet upon a person’s brain and the impact the web has on deeper level thinking and comprehension of reading. As the advancements of technology continue to transform, the way in which people look at the internet is that of a “passive way of information”. Carr, for instance, emphasizes reading to be the key to everything we do these days. Unfortunately, thanks to the use of the Internet, Carr elaborates upon the information that reading the material found upon the web is changing the way we read, and has tremendous affects to the manner in which we develop higher level thoughts.
Common sense seems to dictate the impact of the internet, based upon Carr’s article one would think about whether the internet is able to cause such effects on the human race. Google has spent tremendous amounts of resources and capital on trying to generate the “perfect search engine” with every specification made exactly right. Is this really possibly? Carr illustrates the ramifications of human intelligence changing because

The internet has given us complete access to anything and everything. Carr elaborates on an experience from Fredrick Nietzsche, where Nietzsche describes that once his sight began to fade, he was forced to begin writing with a typewriter instead of paper and pen. Nietzsche demonstrates the use of a machine had begun to change the structure and style behind his writing. Furthermore, for us, Nietzsche argues “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” In a sense, the internet, or “google” is a part of our writing equipment. The internet becomes one of the number one places to look for our necessary information no matter what info was needed to complete the