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Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

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Genesis 1:3 from the Bible quotes ‘let there be light”, symbolizing the beginning of life. When Steve Jobs said, “let there be an iPhone”, it was the beginning of a whole new world. It turned the phone industry to another level and he took the world a step further into the future. Before the launch, people were using Blackberry; a phone with a 2-inch screen and a non-touch screen keyboard. When the iPhone was revealed to the public, people were awed by the features as it was “never before seen”. This intensified the competition as companies needed to come out with better futuristic features. The competition in technological innovation has made various impacts as the world is always advancing by introducing new features to make life easier. …show more content…

The world is changing in a rapid pace and people might be taking advantage of this speed. In Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” from the book “The Norton Reader", Carr made a valid point about how people “typically read no more than one or two pages before they ‘bounce’” (574). What this means is that people are skimming through paragraphs and articles to get fast information. With skimming being a habit, “people have lost the ability to read three or four paragraphs” (574). This makes people lazier as they are not looking through their information in-depth. Instead, they are only looking for a specific answer without capturing its knowledge. With this feature, it brings the world to a disadvantage as people tend to adopt this habit and become less intelligent by not putting effort to learn. Before the internet existed, people would swipe through encyclopedias to find the answers they want. Our grandparents had no Google search bar to find their answers and skimming through the books was not an option. It shows that with the competition in innovation going on between companies, some of their customers are lazy people who are taking advantage of the inventions for the wrong …show more content…

Dating is part of the creation of the competitive invention as it has found a way to find love without leaving the comfort of our own homes. It has helped find love easier by simply putting in our picture, describe ourselves and hopefully find a match. However, how do we know our match is really the person we are talking to? Catfishing is a very common crime in the digital world as people tend to create a persona behind their phones to convince an individual as something or someone they are not. One of the cases of catfishing would be 19-year-old Zach Anderson who met a 14-year-old girl that claimed herself as 17 on the dating site. Zach escalated the situation by going on a 22-minute drive to Michigan to have sexual intercourse. Because the age of consent in Michigan was 16, Zach was unintentionally titles Zach as a sex offender. He was reported by girl’s mother and was pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, 75 days in jail and his name input in the Sex Offender Registry (James and Effron). This was an unfortunate disaster as it was because of a twist in numbers. The competitive battle in the technological industry targets people at all ages who are willing to set foot into the future. With the innovative inventions being in the hands of underaged people, it could be harmful for the

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In Nicholas Carr’s writing, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” mentions multiple examples of why the internet and the simplicity of looking up and getting exactly what we were looking for are causing a drop in the way we think and the intelligence of our minds. Carr explains that he was once a huge reader and could comprehend ten to fifteen-page articles easily, but the directness of the internet had dulled his brain that he could not read a few paragraphs before he gave up and his mind started drifting off into the emptiness of his brain. Carr mentions that the Net is being the universal medium causing information that is read and learned go in one ear and out the other. Carr defends his positions by adding multiple examples showing that the Net

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A research . shows that people using a website has developed a new way to read called skimming. They don't read word from word instead they just for one page to another. In the end, he describes how we need to teach our minds how to understand longer passages again. Furthermore having the opportunity to transport the internet with you everywhere allows

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In Nicholas Carr's article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” the author argues that the Internet has become a new form of acquiring knowledge in people’s lives. Additionally, the author supports his own statement by demonstrating that within just a few clicks, one can instantly gain any information or article online without the need to visit and search a physical library. However, even though the Internet ameliorates the quality and quantity of resources to gain knowledge, he believes that as the source of knowledge is replaced by a convenient web page, society becomes easily distracted. In Clive Thompson's article, “Smarter Than You Think.

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Summary One Nicholas Carr in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” states that the internet is causing deficiencies in reading and has caused people to have brief attention spans while reading a book. Carr immediately goes into explanation on how he can no longer sit to read without becoming “fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do.” Carr then uses the rhetorical device of ethos by using creditable sources to back his claim. He uses a claim from scholars at University College London that stated, “It is clear that users are not reading online in traditional sense,” therefore stating people are skimming and scanning for information.

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Nicholas Carr’s essay, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?” on the other hand is a very different approach to language, more specifically about the language used in relation to technology. Carr begins this essay with a personal observation that he is losing his ability to read for long periods of time. He claims that the internet is to blame for deterioration of attention people now experience when reading. This is because people are developing a new way of reading in which Freidman refers to as “skimming”(Carr) that allowing them to hastily read things without actually taking in the semantic meaning.

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In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr clearly states his thesis and the idea that not only is google changing the way we as humans think, read, and write, but all of technology is affecting us in our everyday lives. The internet sources such as Google are created to find information fast and easy for users. Google does all the searching and hard work of having to read through huge articles. We are humans have it easy now, we no longer have to do all the reading and digging around of endless articles and papers.

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In, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (2008), Nicholas Carr maintains that the advent of the Internet produced a shallow generation of information consumers who lack the ability to deeply engage with a text and think critically about it. Carr supports his claim by drawing on numerous personal and historical anecdotes and one scientific study. The purpose of Carr’s article is to open dialogue about the potentially adverse effects the Internet could have human cognitive processes to allow individuals to begin to question the impact that the Internet is having on their lives. Carr establishes an informal, causal relationship with the audience. The audience of The Atlantic is generally well-educated, upper-middle class individuals who are likely approaching the article with a relaxed, non-critical lens (most likely embracing the article as a form of “think piece”).

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(Carr 316). Carr uses Friedman’s experience to show that people do not want to read lengthy articles gather their information so they just skim down the article quickly. He goes on to talk about how he can relate to people because he loses focus and bounces around while he reads an article. Another opinion Carr uses is Maryanne Wolf, a psychologist at Tuft’s University, Wolf believes that the style of reading that is used on the web “is a style that puts efficiency and immediacy above all else” (Carr 316). This shows that the internet is used to find a quick answer instead of having to do deep research to find the answer you need.

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Response to: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In the Doyle household, cellphones, laptops, iPads and the television rule our mind and body. We barely interact with each other outside of little comments or concerns. Our iPhones rule our train of thought and conversation, rarely causing us to go upstairs and ask that person what we want to know. Whenever dinner is ready, we send a text instead of calling that person down. The television constantly blasts its noise as we eat dinner, mindlessly watching it like zombies.

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Does Google have a negative impact on cognition? Nicholas Carr appears to believe so. In his essay Is Google Making Us Stupid? Carr talks about how the internet is rapidly diminishing the capacity for concentration in people around the world. He claims that Google hinders the ability for people to think for themselves and is oversimplifying information; however, Carr is being shortsighted with his claims.

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Many people in the world function this way because “efficiency” is highly valued by the majority of the population. I find this point very believable because when I seek out an answer on the web, I don’t usually read into it because technology has changed my brain to think that the first answer is the most reliable. This way of thinking has become more apparent as the use of technology increases so the process of deep reading and deep thinking must be reacquired by many. When technology is misused and relied upon too heavily, it has the power to change how the human brain functions to imitate that of a computer

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If deep reading is no longer performed, then our brains are rewired to not deep think. This clearly demonstrates that the use on the Net is in effect making us less intelligent. Reading a physical book requires patience and concentration. When browsing the Internet there is not much concentration or deep thinking required. These skills become dormant and cannot be reawakened.

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iGoogle In todays vast network of the Internet and constant upgrades and updates of social media and technology is slowly erasing the use of actually using a book, whether it’s to gain knowledge on a subject or to find out how to make potato salad. In Nicholas Carr’s reading “Is Google Making Us Stupid” he talked about how technology is shaping our brain with the vast information the Internet possesses, he also talks about how we loose focus on long written articles, which he even uses himself as an example of this trait of becoming more intertwined with the internet. Also he talks about how we are becoming more and more dependent towards the Internet. I do agree with Carr’s main points of how we heavily rely on the Internet and that it’s

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Nicholas Carr proceeds to mention other people’s similar experiences to validate his thought. Nicholas Carr mentions how we have changed our way of reading in response to the internet’s quick paced environment in the next line. ‘They found that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited.’. Although I also have experienced times where reading lengthy text such as this article can be hard due to lack of concentration, I believe it is not the internet’s fault. If we are losing our ability to focus deeply it might have to do with the fact that we as humans are adaptive creatures.

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We are losing our ability to think critically because we are getting lazy. We do not use the internet wisely. We know that the internet has the answer to our questions. We try to find all the answers on the net, instead of asking someone personally or try by ourselves until we reach the solution. My friend said that it depend more on the person, how he uses the information.

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