Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to our Brains,” Nicholas Carr argues that the internet has altered, possibly not in a good way, how we use our cognitive mind. Today, most everyone is getting on to a computer and using the Net. It could be to do research, read an article, or just to scan the news in all its forms. What we don’t realize is that how we now read and research has weakened our minds cognitively.Thesis: The Internet, according to the author, is modifying the way that we read and take in knowledge through our senses. Carr recognized that he was losing his ability to read deeply into a text. When he sat down to read a short article, he caught himself skimming over the text. He became

With the use of the internet, our brains have become used to skimming over information and what we learn has been greatly lessened. When reading an article in the past, time would be taken to read through the entire text to gain a good grasp of what the writer was communicating. Now, for most people, an article is read more than once to grasp its intent. Carr said, “Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged” (Carr). Part of the problem is that since all we do is skim over that which is read, the ability to read and absorb a long article or book has been lost. With this loss, the brain becomes a station of short facts that are not remembered or greatly learned. Noteworthy changes in the way we take in knowledge like this have been happening throughout all

In Google’s World, the world we enter when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation (Carr). In the article, Carr writes how Google is developing “the perfect search engine,” that has the ability to “understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want” (Carr). The groundworks of this is seen in online advertising. After browsing over or looking something up, what pops up to the side of most every page, later on, is an advertisement for an article or product related to what was previously viewed. They know that if it’s seen in multiple places we are more likely to view and/or buy an item. This is a product of believing that man's brain is better with the use of artificial knowledge incorporated in conjunction with our