Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

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In Is Google Making Us Stupid, Nicholas Carr argues that Internet changes how we think and act. First, he provides a personal example on how he cannot focus on reading for more than a few pages because Google has made him more efficient in doing research by going online rather than grinding through long readings. Then, Carr presents another example on a blogger, Brue Friedman, who also admits that he lost his ability to read long text after search engine became popular. Furthermore, Carr expresses his idea by using an historical example. Friedrich Nietzsche, who bought a typewriter in the late 1800s, changed his style of writing once he got familiar with the typewriter. Nietzche admitted, “You are right, our writing equipment takes parts in