Nicholas Carr, the author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” from The Atlantic, argues that the use of the internet has given people an excuse to become lazy and therefore become stupid. People have become more machine-like since they use the internet for everything. Clive Thompson, author of “Is Google Wrecking Our Memory” from Slate, proposes that people are treating technology like our friend or family and relying on it to remember details for us. Daniel M. Wegner and Adrian F. Ward, authors of “The Internet Has Become the External Hard Drive for Our Memories” from Scientific American, discuss that people turn to the internet for information, storing memories and much more. The Internet has become an easy access point for people all over to get …show more content…
Wegner and Ward’s article and Carr’s article are a somewhat serious tone while Thompson’s article is very much a comical article. Carr along with Wegner and Ward are very serious about the topics in their articles. Wegner and Ward use words that are serious and can easily be understood, so their readers know what they mean. Their article is positive, unlike Carr’s which is negative, on the affect Google has on our brain. Carr also uses words that let the reader know he is serious about the issues that are addressed. Thompson’s article, which was also positive, may have had a serious tone at the beginning, becomes more comical as the reader goes on. He uses words that are not as serious as the other two articles and makes some jokes throughout his article. Thompson uses a lot of quotation marks to put emphasis on some words. He also includes some hints at celebrities, trying to make the topic easier to talk about. His last sentence, which states that “you can stop worrying about your iPhone moving your memory outside your head. It moved out a long time ago…”, is where the humor shows the most