Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

The rise of the technological age has brought to pass the downfall of mindful and comprehensive reading. At least this is what Nicholas Carr believes, as stated in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”. He argues that because of the golden age of computers, in depth reading no longer occurs to the extent that it once did. According to Carr, people now simply skim and skip over articles instead of actually reading them in depth. Carr constructs his credibility by having a prestigious background, and citing academic sources. Besides this, he also successfully insights passion in his audience. However, the real money is in Carr’s logical appeals. In the end, he effectively appeals to his audience through his rhetoric, and effectively convinces

Next, he cites the ideas of Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at tufts university and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. Wolf speaks of a phenomenon known as “We are how we read.” Wolf is concerned that the web puts both “Efficiency and Immediacy” above anything else. It all plays directly into the idea that humans want things to be easy, we want to get to the main idea of an article quickly so we can move on to something else. This mentality is human nature, but she argues that it, “ May be weakening our capacity.”
Once again, there is extremely logical reasoning behind every one of Carr’s arguments because, in reality, most of the arguments posed do not actually belong to Carr. What he has done, is essentially gathered the opinions of a bunch of experts into a cohesive essay and given insight into the thoughts of others. What this means, is that to disagree with Carr in this essay would be to disagree with what has become accepted by many as fact. His arguments are researched based, and backed up by experts in the field with years of experience and scientific experiments behind

His argumentation causes each reader to seriously contemplate their possible reading disability. Suddenly, we are doing something that we would not regularly do. This is actually reading in depth. Any desire to try to skim the article is vanquished because the reader is looking for flaws in his thinking right from the get go. In his essay he compared scuba diving and jet skiing, and what he has done is forced his audience to scuba dive. There really is not any other option, because as a reader you have two choices. You must either accept the fact that you are stupid and attention deficit, or find a way to disprove his argument. The kicker is that the reader must dive deep down and actually understand what he is saying in order to strike his argument