In the article Nicholas Carr published called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (Carr, 557) he explains how the Web and technology has impacted us. He also has written several books and articles about technology, business, and culture. (Carr, 556) I believe Nicholas has enough background information to be reliable for what is in his article. Therefore, I believe in Nicholas Carr’s intentions of his article and agree upon what he is stating.
Nicholas Carr feels as if someone has rewired his brain. His brain isn’t thinking the way it use to think and he strongly feels it when he reads. He was able to read for hours through long stretches of prose but over the years that has changed. (Carr, 557) Nicholas’s concentration now starts to fade after reading just two or three pages. (Carr, 557) Since he has been spending a lot of time on the web his attention span has decreased greatly. (Carr, 557)Research that took days to find can now be found within seconds. Nicholas thinks that his mind expects to take in information the way the net distributes it. (Carr, 557) The more you use the Web the harder it is to stay focused on what you’re reading.
Nicholas uses Scott Karp, a blogger, as an example that the Web has been impacting us. Scott admits that he stopped reading books altogether when at one moment he was a voracious book
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not so much because the way I read has changed… but because the way I think has changed.” (Carr, 557 & 558) Nicholas also uses Bruce Friedman, another blogger, as an example. Bruce makes a statement “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a long article on the Web or in print.” (Carr, 558) Bruce can no longer read a blog that is more than three or four paragraphs because it is too much to absorb so he decides just to skim it. (Carr, 558) With these examples in mind, it shows that many people understand the depth of this problem because the internet is affecting people worldwide, especially