Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

In Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” I disagree that his use of support doesn’t work to make his point in this essay because it is too biased. Carr’s article shows a lot of support to his hate towards the internet by quoting himself along with his other fellow writers who are a part of an older generation like Carr himself and only includes one study from University College London. Carr mainly focuses on his anecdotes to help support his essay which really doesn’t give the audience actual information, although he makes a compelling point that Google or the internet itself is making us stupid, but what Carr has not included was any evidence about the good parts about the internet. What Carr was lacking in his essay was that

Just like how we use to traditionally read, but now we gravitate towards what we are interested in and what is useful to us. In the third paragraph Carr talks about hyperlinks, Carr goes on about when we “power browse” it becomes much more helpful in seeing the depth of a subject that we are looking for.

Another reason why Carr’s essay was unjustly biased is because included support about the good things about the internet is that the internet allows us to communicate on a whole other level that lets us see and read about different cultures without leaving the comforts of our homes. Online open forums like Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, these sites that we use allow us to connect with people from all over the world can can also allow people to read about a certain topic that interests the people to view it and to discuss it with not only other people near their area, but with people who are also living in other regions. Before, it would be impossible to see photos of the flooding that took place in California or places like pro or anti Trump rallies that took place at that moment in time. People who live in or near the areas that have could see these events are posting and sharing their own pictures to their friends, families, and right before you know it, it’s on the internet where everyone in the whole world to see. Because of

It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV”. What Carr is telling us obviously is that he believes that most of these tools that we use on a daily basis are controlling how we live but Carr sets this up as a scare tactic to think that we are not in control when in actuality we are in control of what we do with or without our tools. In my personal experience I use these tools on a daily basis but I use them in a normal matter. For example how I use the clock is to tell time because I myself have a busy schedule to keep up with during the day. We need these tools to keep up with society and manage our time because everything in society does not revolve around us. Carr leads the reader on about his self expectation prophecy that Carr believes he is right about how technology is taking over our minds and making us stupid, which is not the case. The case is that since society is changing for the better, however Joseph Weizenbaum says “In describing when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock”. Weizenbaum describes time as this dictative ruler that we are following it’s rules out of fear, it’s true that we follow time’s rules but we follow it’s rules because time is not an illusion that we can just forget like time is a thing of the past, we are more intelligent compared to animals who use their instincts, we are not