Michael Pacheco
11.22.2014
English 1101
Dianne Layden
A Dire Consequence In his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr professes his opinion on the impression that we, as a population, are becoming shallower and strewn in our thinking. As Carr states his concerns, “I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading…My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument… That's rarely the case anymore…” (634). Though most persons do not pay attention to such arguments, Carr maintains a valid point. Back in the day research was defined by said word, an examination into sources and provisions in order to inaugurate details and reach assumptions. The contemporary use of the world’s
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As a consequence, we are becoming reliant upon the aforementioned for reasons such as; growth in work efficiency, analysis, and inscription. Carr asserts, "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski," referring to a 5-year study in the UK, which shed light upon the idea that people visiting sites “exhibited a form of skimming activity, hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they'd already visited” (638). Research using the internet is becoming an ambiguous development. No longer is it the norm to use a library in order to amass the information needed. A secure locality with nominal distraction. We are plagued with interferences when in use of the internet. The use of ads, in order to generate profit, a use of hyperlinks, in order to interrupt our progress and acquire our attention elsewhere. As well as films, websites, abundances of material, in which have a soul purpose of diminishing our attention span in order to have an individual focus their attention aside from the main purpose. This is supported by Carr’s statement, "…our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged" (639). Nicholas Carr’s also incorporates of the ideas of playwright Richard Foreman, which is as