In Nicholas Carr's article, “Is Google making us Stupid?” (731-745) his thesis is, “...what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.” (733) According to Carr, the Internet affects the way that we read, think, and live. It affects the way we read because through the continued use of the Internet we have been conditioned to skim through information quickly and efficiently. If the information we see has nothing to do with what we are looking for we move on. This completely voids the entire process of “deep reading” as described by Carr. It affects the way we think because we do not have enough patience to process the information only classify its usefulness. The way that it affects our lives, in Carr's eyes, is the way it turns us into mechanical systems of processing. …show more content…
He uses examples all the way back to when the printing press was first invented, and the influence citizens thought it would have on intellect, to the founders of Google and how their goal of artificial intelligence. Most prominent example would be how the influence of technology changed the style of, German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche's work. After he started having a hard time with his vision he purchased a type writer, that after he learned how to touch type, aloud him to write with his eyes closed and once again record his thoughts. If you read Carr's article you will come across the selection where a correspondence between Nietzsche and a German media scholar, Friedrich A. Kittler, describe how his “style” of writing has changed after he changed the medium of his writing. This sums up the claim that advancements in technology tend to effect how we think and therefore the actions that we