In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr feels that over past few years there’s been a change in the way he thinks. Carr observes that there is something that is changing his memory and restructuring his brain’s way of thinking. Carr suggests that research that would require hours in library going through bundles of text has now ended up in few searches on google, which has degraded the power of contemplation and concentration in a human brain. Carr points out that he is not the only one with this reading problem he has other acquaintances that have similar problem of focusing on large pieces of writing. Juxtaposing with writers last comments he mentions bloggers like Scott Karp and Bruce Friedman who were once avid readers and now have completely lost their ability to concentrate and contemplate the long articles they read. Carr also asserts that only anecdotes don’t prove anything. To prove his point he examines the study done by scholars from University of London which concludes that people who use computer logs to research shows signs of skimming rather than depth reading. …show more content…
Nietzsche writing “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.” (qtd. Nietzsche 18). Moving on with the theory, Carr then discusses the work of sociologist Daniel bell which concludes that the tools we use instead of our mental and physical capacities we inevitably begin to take on qualities of those technologies (Carr 18). Similarly internet is incorporating our other intellectual technologies like calculating, typewriting and our radio and tv. Carr further points out on how Nets influence have affected the traditional media and expectations of audiences. He give example of New York times that how they have to write article abstracts and have to play by the new media