Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

What's google? According to the dictionary, it means a search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet using the search engine “Google.” Google now processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average, which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide (Internet Live Stats). In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, the main point that the author, Nicholas Carr, is trying to make is that as the internet becomes our primary source of information, it begins to affect our ability to read books and other long pieces. Even though this process may offer knowledge efficiency, it flattens our brain’s learning experience in the process. The first thing Carr does is shared

Genevieve Roberts, in his article, quotes that “[a] recent study...suggests 90 per cent of us are suffering from digital amnesia.” With a powerful tool like camera or in-built camera phones, we tend to capture moments in digital form which adversely affect our memory storage for that moment. We rely more and more on the pictures in digital form, whether it is on the Net or in phone. If we are simply accessing the information on the Net and using only part of what is thought to be relevant, then the knowledge is not being created. The contemplative thoughts are far from the realm of long term memory. Genevieve Roberts agree with Carr that “technology is making us shallower thinkers, multi-tasking, unable to digest speeches, even songs, perpetually flicking.” It is very easy to get a meaning of a word with one touch. We don’t flip through the pages of a thick dictionaries anymore, mostly, because of the time it requires. One could use search engines like, google, in the matter of seconds and can give a meaning along with

There was a fascinating metaphor used by Nicholas Carr in this article. It was “pancake people”-- spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.” It is quite a unique thought that we can access almost every bit of a statistics or news about the world. However, the thinness in the formation knowledge is inevitable. By reading online, we can surely associate with the efficiency of gathering knowledge but to store it, we need more than just searching online. In agreement, the intelligence of our brain is flattening into artificial intelligence and we are heavily rely on it. As pancake, we are becoming less and less dense of our dense cultural inheritance while spreading a search wide