Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

Every day there are over 5,000,000,000 Google searches. This exemplifies a growing interest in technology that seems to grow with each generation as they are raised with different technological advances. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr appeals to emotion and authority throughout his article by using personal and credible examples from his own life as well as examples from other professors and doctors. Furthermore, it appeals to our logic by providing results from tests used to determine brain activity. Nicholas Carr achieves his goal in informing his audiences of the possible threat those Google posses to our intelligence.
In his article, Nicholas Carr questions how technology is affecting our intelligence. He

He provides examples of tests done on human minds and the results showing that our minds have changed. These tests explain how our minds ability to work has changed. The tests also show that our minds work like a computer and we scan to pick up as much information as possible. Carr describes that to keep up with current trends, Google has changed different forms of the media, such as various magazines and radios. Nicholas emphasizes to his audience that Google exists to collect our information, provide us information, and to be a platform for advertisers to collect our info and use it to try and sell us products.
In the beginning of Carr’s article, he claims that our minds have changed somehow and he provides numerous examples of his experiences and others. The examples Carr lists further strengthen his statement about Google changing our minds. In his article Carr states, “My mind isn’t going–so far as I can tell–but it’s changing”, this is an example of Carr using the ethos to strengthen his description of his own experience. The author goes even further in describing how his mind struggles to stay on topic while reading a long article or blog. Carr isn’t the only one; Scott Karp

“Googleplex–is the Internet’s high church, and the religion practiced inside its walls is Taylorism”, being as efficient as possible is there goal. Google is “a company that’s founded around the science of measurements and is striving to systematize everything.” Google is a utilitarian resource that provides us information and collects the information we search and provides it to businesses so they can advertise to you specifically. Google is run to be as efficient as possible and collect, transmit, and manipulate information for its own use and use for