Is Google making us stupid? Nicholas Carr, author and writer, asserts that today's fascinations with everything online is changing the ability of society to think independently. Is it fair to assume that the entirety of internet users will be less intelligent based on ease of access? The argument Nicholas Carr presents in "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is slightly flawed because of his lack of strong evidence, yet it is intriguing from the highly debatable assertion and historical viewpoints.
The main evidence Carr uses to prove the internet is changing people's minds is that of the research conducted at University College London. In the five-year research program, visitors to two specific sites were being examined. It was found that "people using the sites exhibited a form of skimming activity, hopping from one source to another" (Carr). While this evidence is interesting and speaks to changes in the way information is being processed, it does not in fact indicate an overall decrease in intelligence. With this being said, it's hard to use this evidence towards a personal opinion of the internet making people stupid because there is no real data related to intelligence, only the fact that people do indeed skim articles.
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Carr states, "the Net... is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation." The internet makes it too easy to find information, so people are less forced to think for themselves while the computers can do it for them. This information, at this point in time, is more of a theory. There's no way of truly proving it, but it also cannot be considered wrong, it is merely