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'Is Google Making USupid' By Nicholas Carr

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Google is NOT making us stupid Nine years ago, there was an article written by Nicholas Carr in an issue of The Atlantic, by the name of “IS Google Making Us Stupid?” Just from reading the title, I already knew that I would disagree entirely with the content of the article. How could google possibly make people stupid, if it contains all the information one could ever possibly seek to know? Don’t know how many ounces are in a pound? Google it. Don’t know who won Super Bowl 37? Google it. Don’t know who the 21st president of the United States was? Google it. The point being, if at any time one doesn’t know something, all they need to do is compose a google search and they have their answer. Without google, I wouldn’t know many of the things …show more content…

Carr states, that he mentioned his troubles with reading for long periods to friends, and refers to these friends as the “Literary type”. He says, his “literary type” friends state they are also having these same issues (Carr, “Is Google Making us Stupid”). Though many American’s are not the literary type. For Carr to make such a broad statement that Google is making people stupid, he needs to consider the subject from other points of view than just of his and his friends. Personally, I wouldn’t consider any of my friends and family the “literary type”, thus they would not encounter this same issue as Carr and his friends did. If I were to ask any of my friends and family if google was making them stupid, I am certain they would all say no. I believe Carr should have taken a survey, or at least done further research, to get the opinions of all American’s, not just of his and his friends. America is a very large and diverse country, and to say Google is making people stupid based off a very small and specific sample size of opinions, is extremely …show more content…

His argument is that it is now a different kind of reading, it focuses on efficiency and immediacy above all else. He claims this may be weakening our capacity for deeper reading (Carr, “Is Google Making us Stupid”). I believe what he is not understanding, is that deeper reading is no longer required to get the information that we once sought out. Carr admitted this himself early in the article, when he explained how, many years ago it would take him days of research in a library before he had enough information to write an article, but now, just a few internet searches and he has all the information he needs. That is what is so great about Google and the internet. The information someone is seeking is streamlined directly to them. There is no wasted time reading unnecessary information. People no longer need to read deeply into everything, because the information is presented directly to them. Why waste time on something, when there is no need to? Society’s capacity for deeper and longer reading may well be in decline, but that is because people no longer need this capacity, everything they need to know is presented to them with the touch of a

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