In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicolas Carr analyzes the dramatic affects that technologies have been having on our brains. The short summary, the Net is making us all mindless zombies in Carr’s mind, but he is not the only who feels that way. His long dragged out article is abundantly full of meaning examples, personal opinions, and hard facts on the drastic changes the Net has done to our brains. Carr starts his articles with the death of super computer, HAL, from the movie A Space Odyssey. The meaningful phrase, “I can feel it.” Carr can feel it too. In fact, many of his friends and one popular blogger can all feel the tolls of the Net rewiring their brains. Concentrating on a long book or article used to be easy for Carr …show more content…
Friedrich Nietzche, a famous writer, was going blind it was difficult for him to focus on his writings anymore, until one day he bought a type writer. He mastered typing until he could type with his eyes closed. He could write again, words flowed from his mind on the ink stained pages. Yet this had a troublesome effect on cars writing, it was a noticeable change in his writing. Carr uses the invention of the clock to further his argument on the changes in our brain. We adapted around the clock, molded our minds around the concept of time until it no longer felt like a technology. Carr concludes that similar conditions are happening to our brains, we are molding around internet, phones, and other …show more content…
This is the part where the reader undoubtingly trusts Carr, we’re all a sucker for people who exploit some weakness, something that makes them vulnerable. A couple other examples of Carr uses ethos to establish hi credibility is right in the very beginning of the article when he talks about how he feels the affects just as anyone else would. By sharing with the reader, letting them know he’s felt this change and so has many other people. Do you feel it