Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

All information in the world could be accessed at the same place through the same search engine. Nicholas Carr is an American writer who usually writes about the problems of technology combined with world's culture. His books includes Does IT Matter? (2004), The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (2008), The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010), and The Glass Cage: Automation and Us (2014). "Is Google Making Us Stupid" an essay written by Nicholas Carr, appeared originally as the cover article in the July/August 2008 issue of the Atlantic. Carr is surely right about Google making humanity "stupid" because, Google made a way easier and faster the accessibility to any kind of information at any time, and

According to Carr "It seeks to develop "the perfect search engine."" In other words Carr believes that Google was projected to be the best search engine ever made. Also Carr uses Google as an example: "The company has declared that [Google]'s mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful""[Carr 324]. In agreement with Carr Google made everything simple and accessible for everyone, however Google also makes society lazy because instead of researching a topic properly in a library with valid sources, we rely on Google's search engine to find all of the answers for us. We just type the subject wanted in the search space on Google then we find all the information about that, it's simple, although people don't read anymore because information comes easy, that make people dependent on technology, but not always, the information on Google is reliable because everyone can put anything they want on the

Before Google was invented, people were required to go to libraries to make any kind of research for college, high school, or even to get more knowledge. Nowadays we just have to pull our phones up and type whatever we want to know, and instantly Google find the best option of answer, then the information comes up. This kind of technology made the population less interested to go out of their houses in destination to libraries, and read trying to find the information in their own. Carr states "The ultimate search engine is something as smart as people---or smarter."[Carr 325] Carr's point is that population don't actually learn stuff as in the old days, by the fact that information comes too easy and fast, we can search subjects from cooking receipts up to high level science or anthropology, and then forget because how information comes easy people don't have to memorize or learn those things. This is happening with the Millennials, known as generation Y. The past generation known as generation X, they did not have those kind of technology in the old days, that allow they to make more research fast as nowadays, on the other hand, humans have the ability to adapt to