Is Google Making USupid Summary

Assignment

Name Ranjodh Singh

Student Id# N01214147

Summary:

In this article ““Is Google Making Us Stupid”? (Nicholas Carr’s, The Atlantic, and July/August 2008) the writer is questioning the audience about google. The main idea to write this article is that people are using more internet websites now a day rather than using traditional ways of researching by using books, going to the library and manually researching a specific topic. With the technology now, the research which usually consume hours, it can be done in minutes. Traditional ways consumed more time on books but with google people just need to search and by skimming it’s all done. As a result, people are losing their ability to focus more on online reading. Google or technology

Our minds are receiving the information as the internet describes us. As a result, it is really very tough to stay focused in long and deep writings.

Bruce Friedman says in his research that internet changed people’s habits in many ways. It affects people’s mental ability as they fed up after reading three to four paragraphs and also using skimming techniques. They also try to use as much as resources rather than focusing at one. They are losing traditional way of reading by just watching titles, pages. People are grabbing habits to read online and want to get rid from traditional readings. One of the scientist Joseph Weizenbaum observed in his 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation that latest technologies are changing metaphors. The internet has lot of impact on cognation of brain. Now a day’s internet is becoming our clock, map etc. The advancing technology like emails, messaging scattered people’s attention and individuals are losing their

As Shirky puts it, "Every time a new consumer joins this media landscape, a new producer joins as well."[21] Even countries like China, as Shirky gives as an example, go to great lengths to control information exchange on the Internet but are having trouble as the "amateurization" of media creation has effectively turned every owner of a cellphone and Twitter account into a journalist. The populace as a whole, Shirky claims, is a force much harder to control than a handful of professional news sources. (Clay