Is Google Making USupid Thesis

The article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is world wide, published article. It was written by “Nicholas Carr”, who has published various books and articles on a wide range of topics; including that of technology, business, and culture (Comley 609). However, with this article, Carr is bringing us to a whole new perspective on how the popular search engine, “Google”, is affecting our learning/intelligence. We, as individuals, are letting “Google” perform our own learning for us, creating a slow downfall in American intelligence. First off, Carr is an extremely credible author in that he is most known for being elected to the Encyclopedia Britannica’s editorial board of advisors in 2008 and was a graduate of Harvard University (Comley 609).

To start off, we see how Carr doesn’t insert his thesis until a few paragraphs into the article. His thesis being, “And what the net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation” (Carr 610). With this thesis, we are shown how Carr gives us insight on his view of the internet, which is later solidified with various examples. He used other writers and bloggers to back up his point as well. For example, Bruce Friedman is blogger who typically works on the computers effect in the use of modern medicine. Yet, in one of his blogs, he states how the “internet has altered his mental habits” (Carr 610). Also later to describe that he cannot focus on just one long article and he feels he has lost his ability to comprehend what he has read (Carr 610). This example shows logos and ethos in that he is citing internet behavior studies, giving evidence on how the internet is actually affecting us. This example also shows how the problem is affecting more than just him, it is affecting that of a population. When an experiment was conducted by a British library, results show that people using the internet exhibited a

At most every time of the day, people use their phones whether for texting, playing, or surfing the internet. This thought is further demonstrated by a woman named Mary Anne Wolf. Wolf is a developmental psychologist at Tufts University. Wolf published the book, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of Reading the Brain (Carr 611). In this, she states how many of us put the internet above everything else since it always efficiently distributes the information we are asking for (Carr 611). While this is meant to help people, it is instead changing how our brains are interpreting information. When we are younger, we are taught how to interpret many different symbols, letters, and numbers. As we grow, this skill is further developed and made stronger yet these various studies have revealed this is being weakened by technologies influence on our