Analysis essay for “Is Google Making Us Stupid” In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicolas Carr asks the question “is the internet making us dumber “because she says the internet causes us to become dependent on it for everything in life such as work productivity, reading and writing. Carr also says that the internet has also lead to us becoming distracted in our lives, making us become too us to being able to access information faster and more conveniently, and that the internet is slowly making us become more obsolete compared to our “slow” human brain. Carr starts off with her argument by providing historical evidence from a media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who in the 1960s, said that the media is not a passive way to transfer information, it also molds and shapes peoples thought. The strength of this argument is that it can be very …show more content…
With this argument, he could easily use other people similar statements to make it seem like this problem is a very common and relatable.. a weakness of this though is that the expert on this never made any research on it to prove if it actually is true or not. Another piece of evidence used is from University College London who studied a five year research study who said that people would participate in “skimming “activity where they read one or two pages they usually only read those pages and then jump to a different web page. This arguments strength is that it is backed by research studies and a lot of time to collect this evidence and information, however, its weakness is that they didn’t specify whether or not those people were just doing research and if they did manage to find out what they need and what they didn’t need through those pages. Another piece of evidence used is from developmental psychologist named Maryanne Wolf. Wolf says that reading is not something that