Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

The internet is one of the most powerful and complex pieces of technology ever to be assembled. With this power, the internet can radiate some seismic waves into the way we live our lives. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, he illustrates and explains his personal opinion and evidence from others to display the changes and effects the internet has on the world and the people in it. He goes into and explains how the internet is changing the way we read and take in information using his own personal experience with reading books today. He also shows that the internet itself is causing the world to change and adapt to its presence, causing essentially any aspect of the world to be engulfed by the internet and transform according

Carr talks about how the things that were here before the internet have conformed upon exposure to the internet to keep it functioning alongside of it. Carr states “When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image” (576). Carr was 100% right in his statement because I see it in my everyday life with social media and sports. I have many social media accounts whether it be twitter or instagram, and have witnessed what the internet has changed within it.. Everything that was once in newspapers in multiple page articles, are now on tweets that post no more than 140 characters long. While watching sports on TV, scores of other games scroll across the bottom of the screen providing you all the scores fast. Quick information if I do say myself, and uncoincidentally just like the internet. The internet does not always stand by itself

With all the information we consume in a short amount of time Carr says we are acting like computers as he puts to paper saying “as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence” (580). This one again like all the other points is very evident in my life as I see it happen in the school system itself. The school system teaches us to memorize so many things and learn as much as we possibly can in my classes today memorization is key and without it I struggle in class, so learning as much as possible seems to me to be like the role of computers and not for humans. Computers supply us with every bit of information we need and with this power comes the want to be like it, so the school system and culture in general wants us to become like computers, knowing everything that will be useful to us at any given moment and this is taking away our ability to act as humans. In a world where the internet dominates, and has manifested itself in computers and our daily lives, this may be very well be the most important point to realize because if we lose our humanity we lose our ability to be human, and walking computers would be our next