Have you ever thought or tried to live without your phone for a day? Many people may suffer anxiety or fall apart at the idea. In the article “Is Google Making us Stupid” it makes the case that Google is making us smarter and also it is making us stupid. I believe that Google is only one of the mass of technology that is making an impression on our daily lives. We now have access to all the knowledge known to man right in the palm of our hands. This could be good or it could be bad, because with this information also comes disinformation. Ultimately, I believe that technology is making people both more stupid due to our reliance on it; and at the same time not so stupid due to the wealth of information it provides.
Article B makes the point that Google is making people stupid because it makes them more reliant on technology. This is indicated when it states “That's the problem with Google- and with the Internet in general, When we use our computers and our cell-phones all the time, we’re always distracted.” (Carr, B) This shows that we do not pay attention to other people, all we do is talk to them via the internet, even if we are sitting right next to them. The fact is that people do not use the same forms of communication as we had in the past. In the past technology would bring people
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It allows us to think faster and process information better. I believe that it has also made us not so smart by our over reliance on technology. It seems that we cannot live without it. We rely on a lot of the things that it provides like GPS, entertainment, and even school work. We use technology in everything now. Soon we will not even drive for ourselves since cars will be autonomous. In my opinion I would think that we would forget about things like nature or actual people. I think that life will be like the movie WALL-E, we will be moving around watching Youtube, reading ebooks, oblivious to our