Review Of Nicholas Carr's Essay 'Is Google Making USupid?'

We live in a society where people are becoming more and more dependent on and overwhelmed with technology. Every day something new, better and faster comes out. The rapid advancement of technological innovations has made it harder for people and their minds to catch up with what they are dealing with. With this, more and more people are becoming unable to face reality. Nicholas Carr’s essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is just another example of how rapid technological advancements are changing us without us even realizing. Carr claims that technology is becoming more than what we can handle and is affecting and changing the way we think. I, too, believe technology has become and will become even more an entity in which we will not be able to further control because of the impact these innovations have and will continue to have on us, society, and our ways of communication with others. Generally, the impact will be in a negative way. More people will become reliant on technology (e.g. social media), without noticing as more and more researchers and scientists try to come up with faster and even more efficient ways to “better,” in their opinion, the world.
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Reading on the Internet requires “a different kind of thinking— perhaps even a new sense of the self” (Carr 3). Carr further argues, “the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts ‘efficiency’ and ‘immediacy’ above all else” is a type of reading that can only be done on the Internet. Maryanne Wolf argues the Internet puts forth a style of “efficiency” and “immediacy.” If one searches something on Google, the titles of articles relating to your search will pop up. Those titles sum up the entire article attached to the link and so, one only needs to read four or five words and then move onto the next link to see if that link is what he or she wants. This I think has further negatively enhanced our ability to skim