Summary Of Is Google Making Me Stupid By Nicholas Carr

Google made me stupid because I googled all the test answers and failed my test. Nicholas Carr, an American author, wrote “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” published in 2008 in The Atlantic, and he argues about the effects of the Internet on literacy, cognition, and culture. Carr starts his argument by taking an ending scene from a movie called A Space Odyssey. Carr uses logos throughout the whole essay, but also gives himself credibility by giving evidence that he knows what is going on in his mind. I feel that this argument is effective. In his article, Nicholas Carr first sets the stage by describing how the movie A Space Odyssey began and how the actor Bowman, who had nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is

Some of these sources include, “I think I know what’s going on. For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet.” (Car. 736). He then continued in saying “Research that used to require days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.” Citing these sources encourages Carr’s credibility by showing that he has done his work and supplied beliefs and aspirations, as well as an expert opinion to maintain hiser claim. He also uses personal examples from his own life to support the matter, which shows that he has a personal connection and a first-hand experience with this

He points out facts about the human brain: “The human brain is almost infinitely malleable. People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood.” These facts support the idea that Carr’s brain is easily influenced. He then goes on to say, “But brain researchers have discovered that that’s not the case. James Olds, a professor of neuroscience who directs the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, says that even the adult mind “is very