As the times are changing so is the way people attain information. The evolution of technology is ever-changing and advancing. Text books went from being our prime source of information to decorations in our homes. But is this new source of information making us stupid? I am of course riffing to the tech giant and enormous informational hub that is Google. A quick motion of typing a word into the search bar will yield you extensive answers to almost any question. Is this ease of gathering information hindering our abilities. My answer to this question is absolutely not Google is not making people stupid. Google is a tool in which people use to enhance their knowledge making them more intelligent. Google is one of the most essential tools of the Twenty First Century thus far. According to a survey of 895 educational experts almost 80% agree that Google is enhancing the amount of information we have access to making people more intelligent. Besides The ease of which Google provides information can cause one to be lazy but I do not think it makes one stupid. Google filters most of the useless information that you would have to go through in a library. Nicholas Carr‘s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” He uses personal experiences to back up his theory of how Google makes him skim stories instead reading them but this is a personal problem. Maybe google is making him Lazy but it is not making them stupid. This Essay written by Carr jumps to many assumptions and not fact such as saying that this is due to the Internet causing a rewiring in our brain. This assumption is not backed up by fact in his essay. The distractions that Carr refer to can be from numerous things such as children or noise from a television. I do believe that the websites that Google produces can be distracting due to pop ups and ads but these are only distractions which to my knowledge do not impair your
With the rise of technology and the staggering availability of information, the digital age has come about in full force, and will only grow from here. Any individual with an internet connection has a vast amount of knowledge at his fingertips. As long as one is online, he is mere clicks away from Wikipedia or Google, which allows him to find what he needs to know. Despite this, Nicholas Carr questions whether Google has a positive impact on the way people take in information. In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr explores the internet’s impact on the way people read. He argues that the availability of so much information has diminished the ability to concentrate on reading, referencing stories of literary types who no longer have the capacity to sit down and read a book, as well as his own personal experiences with this issue. The internet presents tons of data at once, and it is Carr’s assumption that our brains will slowly become wired to better receive this information.
...second using the search engine, people lose their motivation to read and the attention to think about the answer. (Crovitz 353) In Plato’s Phaedrus, Greek philosopher Socrates claims that people who get information without proper instruction as ignorant since they only conceit of the answer instead of the wisdom to find out and understand the answer. (Carr 341) With such access to information, we do spread information and expand human knowledge in a rapid rate. However, we lose our creativity, intelligence and the spirit of inquiry.
Carr’s message is that Google is not actually making people stupid. It is just making people forget the traditional sense of reading. He expresses that this is a cause for the lack of attention today’s world compared to the time when there were no computers, internet, or Google. I disagree with this argument. If an individual has the propensity to skim over information by nature, than that individual will always be searching for means to gather
In my opinion, Google does not make us stupid like Carr suggests in his article. Google may make us seem lazy because we do less reading and physical activity. Information found on websites helps people become smarter and able to learn subjects easier in school. In the end, Carr never really provides scientific evidence that shows the brain’s circuitry having actually changed. I generally agree with Gladstone’s views and think the mirror metaphor is a useful way of talking about the media’s role in a free society. I also think that the computer and the Internet have enhanced our abilities and increased our processing speeds for acquiring knowledge: making the human brain more efficient in multitasking. The young people who are growing up with this new technology will expand it’s future. Gladstone makes the case that media distributors, even ones that seem indestructible, are ultimately subject to the preferences of their audience: us. Citizens should take up the responsibility of learning about and interacting with valuable media sources and reject those that pander to the lowest common
In other words I say Yes, Google is making us stupid because when we use our computers and our cellphones all the time, we’re always distracted due to the technology. The technology that we used back then was less distracting because in school we would use books and paper to write and find
Although I agree with Nicholas Carr’s article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" up to point, I cannot fully embrace his assessment that the Internet overrides the ability to think critically. Growing up, I spent a lot of time in libraries, and I skimmed across the books in the library in the same manner people today skim across the Internet. I opened far more books than I read far into, and read portions of far more books than I ever finished. I can attest that anything worth reading got read, every word, and recommended to others. That is where the real power of schools, libraries, and the Internet come in the cluster technique that goes on when people pre-absorb material of high enough quality
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr and “How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle are two articles that explore how technology influences our daily lives. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” discusses the effects of the internet in our society, how it is robbing us of our deep thoughts, memories and our ability to read books. Carr also talks about how the internet has become our primary source of getting information. The writer also discusses about how he’s having difficulty focusing on reading. “How Computers Change the Way We Think” is talking about how people don’t use their brains full potential capacity to solve problems. Instead, we depend on technology to do that for us.
I think that the Internet is a great tool to look for information because it saves us time going to the library like Merlin looking for potion recipes that he might not even find. The amount of knowledge out there is very distracting and for the most part of it some of that information we might never even be able to use in our lives but still Google offers it instantly to us on a golden plate. People who think Google or the Internet, as a whole is distracting are completely right. The Internet is distracting but at the end it comes down to the decision we make when we there’s an advertisement popping on our screens and whether we should click on it and or ignore it and carry on with our original task or purpose that made us sit and open our laptop or desktop computer. Google can make us sharper because it gives us all this information and it is our turn to learn this information if we desire
In Nicholas Carr 's article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he discusses the effect that technology has on our brains as the world becomes more advanced. He gives examples of how technology has helped us and hurts us. Nicholas Carr tells about his own experiences with technology and others as well. In this paper, I will talk about the first part of Carr’s article, I will then agree with Nicholas Carr, give examples from his article, talk on his structure, sources, counterarguments or solutions, and end with why I agree with what he has said.
Undoubtedly, Google is the most popular search engine in the world. It may appear that the abundance of data Google provides can only expand the intelligence of a person. However, the service is only impairing the human brain when used improperly. This incorrect use of Google is capable of doing much more damage then the majority of the population would expect.
An article published by The Atlantic went viral in 2008, Nicholas Carr wrote the piece that essentially said that he felt as though online search engines were giving him a temporary education that would go away when his mind drifted off to the next thought. “It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.” (Carr, 2008) This is not true. Google gives us the ability to become educated on topics that without the advancement of this technology, may never have been possible. Google is nearly limitless, anything that can be learned in a library, bookstore or a classroom can be found on Google. It allows us to quickly gather and take in the information it provides to us without the hassle of hours of searching through books to locate information. The site contains about 100 million gigabytes of data and can supply you with that data in as little as 0.18 seconds (Statistic Brain,
In his essay ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’, Nicholas Carr investigates the effect of the Net on the cognition of its users and promotes its negative impact more than its advantage to human life, particularly the human mind. The realization of his, and then subsequently his colleagues’ adoption of a lazy attitude toward reading is what seemingly prompted him to write this paper. His usage of literary techniques and critical evaluations of statements about his subject greatly outweigh his few but important ungrounded assumptions.
Nicholas Carr (a renowned author who has written extensively on this subject), reported in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” cases of very intelligent, well educated people who have begun to notice a change in the way they think and study. These people are experiencing an increasing difficulty in remaining focused for long periods of time or while reading a work longer than a few pages. It’s as if mankind is being programmed to click on any link of button it is presented with and, more importantly, to look for them, even when they aren’t there. Human brains seem to be transitioning away from the careful, deeply focused mentality of an archer’s brain to the lively, constantly moving focus of a juggler’s brain.
Google is the world’s most popular and used search engine. It is used by so many people every single day due to the fact that there are 3.5 billion search per day. However, little do people know that it has been affecting their brains. Google has been around since 1998 and the internet since 1989. Throughout the years, people have stopped depending on books, articles, and newspapers for information and started relying on the internet/Google for answers. Before, people use to think about how and where they would get the information they needed. It used to take hours and days of constant research from things like books. Unfortunately, Google and the internet have become so easy for people to use that it has become a natural instinct to automatically turn to Google when they are lost and confused. In fact, it is too easy to find what one is looking online that internet users d...
In the article Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr, he explains that the way of the internet has changed our lives for the worst. That everyone is having trouble staying focused on long articles that we could read a while ago. That the internet has taught us to process different ideas that take us off the track of what is going on in the paper or article. It has molded our brains to think and find the easy way out of the situation. Like many they describe in the article instead of reading, they simply skim over what they are reading and try to pick out the important parts they see. They miss the information they are seeking by just skimming, the readers do not understand that they