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No Need To Call By Sherry Turrkle Analysis

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There are many different views on whether technology is beneficial or not. In No Need to Call, by Sherry Turkle, Turkle argues that technology is not beneficial because it affects social interaction in a negative way. In Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr, Carr claims that the internet is non beneficial because it has become a distraction and is making humans avoid the traditional sense of reading and writing. In Better than Human: Why Robots Will-and Must-Take Our Jobs by Kevin Kelly, Kelly believes that technology is beneficial thing because by allowing robots to take our jobs, it allows humans to be more creative. Clive Thompson’s essay Smarter than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better states that technology …show more content…

Her main focus is comparing text messages and social media versus phone calls. Text messages and social media create an illusion of privacy and make users feel free to write themselves into the person they want to be (374). People are not being themselves on social media and, therefore, fail to be able to respond immediately during a phone call conversation. People tend to avoid phone calls because it promises more than a person is willing to deliver (374). It is more convenient for a person to send a written form of communication, but it is not the same as verbal communication. Turkle shares a story of someone named Tara who had a friend who felt that telling her about their sister’s death through and email was not convenient (384). Through a phone call Tara could have detected the emotion in her friend’s voice and found out that her sister had passed away. Voices are crucial to connect with others because without them a person can not fully connect with another. Written forms of communication limit connections between people because it does not equate to connecting with an individual face to face. Hence, Turkle’s argument that technology is not beneficial. Similarly, Nicholas Carr, does not think the internet is a good …show more content…

Media theorist Marshall McLuhan believes that “the more we use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing” (315). The Web has caused people to loose their patience for reading long pieces of writing and only partially read it. Bruce Friedman, a blogger, admits that he has lost his ability to read long articles. Three to four paragraphs have become too much for him to read, so he just skims it (316). Maryanne Wolf, a phycologist, worries that the internet’s reading style is weakening our capacity for deep reading because it puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else (317). Google says that its main objective is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” (324). It was designed to be useful, but as Google founder Larry page states Google is “really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale.” Artificial intelligence is the hardest problem to solve out there (325). It is only in companies’ economic interest to create things that put a strain on our reading and concentration levels (326). Stanley Kubrick’s dark prophecy is that if people continue to rely on computers to give them the answers to the world, their intelligence flattens into artificial intelligence (328). This is why Carr, believes that technology is not

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He gets off topic many times; and starts rambling about things like the printer press replacing computers. At one point, he’s talking about clocks and you find yourself asking how is this relevant? Carr, somehow, wrote this whole article without ever diving deeply into the original topic. Every paragraph is something new, him talking about a new subject that barely relates to the original topic of this essay, and he struggles to make connections we can understand. In his effort to keep your attention he uses fancy word play.

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Nicholas Carr’s essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” discusses the benefits and dangers associated with technology, and the internet, or Google is the focus of the essay. He argues that technology is changing humans cognitive thought process, and not in a healthy way. Carr admits that he notices the changes in his own ability to concentrate and comprehend lengthy readings. Not only does he express concern about his own capability of reading he also mentions several other bloggers, and philosophers’ experiences with their ability to decipher long articles. Moreover, he emphasizes historical technologies that have influenced change in our intellectuality such as, the typewriter, the printing press, and the mechanical clock.

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(Carr 316). Carr uses Friedman’s experience to show that people do not want to read lengthy articles gather their information so they just skim down the article quickly. He goes on to talk about how he can relate to people because he loses focus and bounces around while he reads an article. Another opinion Carr uses is Maryanne Wolf, a psychologist at Tuft’s University, Wolf believes that the style of reading that is used on the web “is a style that puts efficiency and immediacy above all else” (Carr 316). This shows that the internet is used to find a quick answer instead of having to do deep research to find the answer you need.

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Carr believes that we depend on the Internet more than just looking up the answers in the book ourselves. He is trying to prove that our generation is consumed by the Internet. In addition to this, I feel his argument is effective because he builds credibility with personal facts, using statistics, and making emotional appeals throughout the essay. He gives many details and examples to backup and support his argument. Nicholas Carr gives himself credibility by stating that he knows what’s going on in his own mind, this is where he is uses ethos.

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1. Nicholas Carr’s argument in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” challenges Thompson’s argument which was that the internet is making people smarter by helping people improve their writing skills when they read other people’s work online. However, Carr believes with so much information available, the internet had changed our “mental habits” in a negative way. The internet has people using “ a form of skimming activity” which decreases how much people read to “no more than one or two pages of an article or book” (Carr 2) before they change to different site. Carr complicates Boyd’s view on how algorithms are filtering what people see on their screen and those who are not digitally literate would be clueless of this.

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This point does go against his statement because he can not be sure that the internet will set us back, so he also brings ideas from the other side of the argument. Carr using the other side of the argument shows that he knows and acknowledges about what else could happen and the benefits, but he still trusts in his beliefs. He also uses the printing press as another example of how he could be wrong. The printing press is very recognizable, but he brings it up because people in the present day do not know about how people used to think that it would ruin our literacy like we expect the internet to. The printing press did have the repercussions that were expected, but Carr does bring up the idea that he could be undermining the positives of how the internet would affect us.

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Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” explores his claim that the way individuals process information is being disrupted and affected by the Internet. Carr begins with the example of HAL, the supercomputer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, having its memory circuits calmly and coldly disconnected by Dave Bowman, who was nearly killed by the computer. Carr unequivocally puts prominence on the fact that as Bowman stripped HAL of its memory circuits, it could “feel” its artificial “brain” and mind slowly slipping away to set the tone of his theory. Carr describes how since he began using the Internet, his mind has become much more inconsistent.

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He tries the explain the natural development of technology and how it is leading us to artificial intelligence, but in doing this he does not add into in his argument. The objective of companies like Google attempting to supplement our intelligence with artificial intelligence does not have any measurable outcome in the real world. The counterargument is trying to take something that he believes may happen in the future vs. something that he has explained to be experienced over time. While it is possible that he is trying to warn about the future to this problem, this argument does not supplement his argument that we are losing our attention span when it comes to long readings online. Carr is only deviated from what he is trying to convince the reader, and this only adds to the tangled mess that his arguments are in

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According to this statement the readers can conclude that the main reason for reading concentration disturbance is the internet. In terms of the scientific research, the article provides the research by the British Library and U.K educational consortium which states “They found that people using the sites exhibited ‘a form of skimming activity,’ hopping from one source to another rarely returning to any source they’d already visitied” (Carr, 2008). From this statement we can understand that there are numbers of attractive information piled on one page, people have a hard time choosing which one to read, resulting them to skim and jump to one another. From these couple examples, it can be concluded that the author of this essay is strongly attempting to convince the readers in his idea of internet disturbing people’s concentration. However, the essay itself is extremely biased, because of the fact that there is no information about benefits of using the internet and reading online.

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Carr points out that people are getting lazy and relying on shortcuts. Another viewpoint he mentioned is the internet and how the machine are designed for searching programs, and finding what interest people. This creation of the internet was to create information for people to access. Carr believes that Google and other search engines are trying to replace the human brain, and the way we think.

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Ancient forms of human communication include cave drawings, smoke signals, symbols, and carrier pigeons. During the late 1800’s, communication became more advanced with the invention of the typewriter and the telephone. Roughly one hundred years later, a military project resulted in what we know today as the internet. With a little innovation, the internet made social interactions between people easier than ever, although, the convenience may come at a cost. Some theories suggest that heavy reliance on social media for human interaction will weaken communication skills, hinder meaningful social interactions, and negatively impact personal relationships.

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