Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

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When was the last time we ever read something and analyzed it without relay on the internet? In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid ?’’ by Nicholas Carr, explain how technology is like a drug that we can not help ourself and use technology more often than we need too . We are too attach to the technology that it is draining our brains . We now see students researching for article, but instead of reading they just skim read and use that for their paper. Carr explain this when he says that our brain is in between observation and attentiveness on how we view the information on the internet. Carr makes many main points on how technology is making us stupid , but there are two points that agree and disagree with. I agree with Carr’s theory …show more content…

The traditional sense of reading is by picking up a book or an article and actually reading not skim reading to find out the purpose of the text . Nowadays we have lost the ability to read a long article and analyze the text due to the powerful technology. Also now on the internet we would spent one mintent at look at something and move on to another. This can be supported by his experience on how he is no longer able to process information on a long reading and lost the memory to do so. We are becoming luzy because we expect the technology to do everything. I agree with Carr’s theory because as the power of technology grows, we are more drawn to technology that everything is going to be about technology. As power of technology grows, we are becoming less productive and unintelligent as shown in the title of his paper. Also agree with Carr’s theory of how we find the easy way out of doing work is extremely useful because it sheds light on the difficult problem of technology. The problem of technology is that we can not help ourself to do everything on the internet from school work to jobs. If power of technology grows we will become useless . Along with this Carr points about how became an efficient …show more content…

Carr states that the information on internet is making us efficient thinker. I disagree with his meaning that the more access information we get from internet the more we become an efficient thinker. We use the internet to find information without knowing if the website is trustworthy or not. How can we know if online reading is accurate or not? How are we becoming an efficient thinker when the internet can lie to us about the information and we use it. In my opinion , we become an efficient thinker by reading and analyzing the information on our own without the help of internet. For example , before technology we should to spend time in the library to read . A person is an efficient thinker when they use their idea instead of using the someone's ideas not having the internet doing the work for us. The technology and internet is making changing our life for better or