Comparison Of Nicholas Carr And David Wolman´s Is Google Making USupid

Today, in our society, we constantly rely on the internet. There are many mixed opinions debating whether it’s a positive or negative having the access to it. Nicholas Carr and David Wolman expressed their opposing opinions, whether the internet is a good or bad thing. In Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Carr explains that he doesn’t favor internet and claims that this has caused him to become more distracted when reading. In contrast, David Wolman wrote, “The Critics Need a Reboot,” Wolman disagrees and believes that the internet is a great tool we should use and the reason few people don’t like the internet is because it’s foreign to those that don’t understand it. Although Wolman lashes out those who disagree with

In this particular article, Wolman loves to use pathos. He blatantly calls the “critics”, “ignorant and irrational” (Wolman 2008). Specifically, Wolman calls out Nicolas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and clearly stated how Google in fact isn’t making us stupid and it’s “a handy scapegoat for an inability to cope with information overload” (Wolman 2008). In Wolman’s opinion, he doesn’t see the negatives about the internet and only sees the positives. He claims that the internet is a great tool to discover information. Wolman also stated, “It’s naïve to think that the digital age will magically remedy stupidity” (Wolman 2008). In conclusion, Wolman thinks that the older generation chooses to blame the latest technology, which in this case is the internet, on their problems and Wolman believes that’s not the case and the internet is making us in fact smarter. In Carr’s essay, he tends to favor using a logical appeal to convince his audience that his opinion is correct. By doing so, he uses support from his fellow colleagues. Carr explains how he can no longer focus while reading like he did in the past. He brought attention to this idea he had and numerous colleagues had the same values Carr did. He has also discovered many blogs on the internet that have the same issue Carr is facing. Bruce Friedman, a blogger he found on the

Wolman’s narcissistic style of writing and name-calling attacks the audience and almost “forces” them to believe that he is accurate. He chooses to use adjectives and similes for the audience to compare this discussion to. For example, Wolman makes this statement about the internet that, “it's an unparalleled tool for generating, finding, and sharing sound information. What's moronic is to assume that it hurts us more than it helps” (Wolman 2008). The way Wolman states his opinion makes the audience assume that he’s correct and the comparisons he makes, the audience can easily agree that he’s