The world we live in today is a technologically advancing society. Every corner that is turned, there is no doubt that everyone in sight has some form of smart device on their person. With this ease of access to the World Wide Web, search engines have become our main source of retrieving information. In the fast-moving world around us, time is of the essence in almost everything we do. Being to work on time is crucial, attending meetings, knowing when to meet a friend for lunch, scheduling appointments, the clock is what we rely on every day. To be fair, the Internet does not seem to be making us stupid per se, although I will concede that it has made us lazy in a way. Examples from Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” will aide in …show more content…
In a growing technological world, search engines have undoubtedly taken the place of encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, etc. It is ridiculous to say that we should not utilize the technology we have been given. It is also not the Internet’s fault that humans have been reprogramed to demand fast results with no delays. A safe assumption would be that when Wi-Fi is not performing fast enough, at least once we have gotten angry that the speed of our browsing is not at its normal swiftness. This is not the Internet’s fault, it is the advancements that humans have made the Internet adapt to. While Carr made many points that back up his theory that Google has made us stupid, there are many reasons to defend the fact that the Internet depends the most on user discretion. Any tool can be utilized positively or negatively, it just depends on the intentions of the user. Easy and quick access to the plethora of information on the Net is just a growing component of the development of technology in our days. The attention span and intentions of the Internet user is the biggest contributor to the controversy that the Web is making us “stupid”, and there will always be a reason to fear the