Is it really Googles fault or is America just lazy? In Nicolas Carr's article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", he argues that people feel like they cannot read longer articles and books because we now have everything at our fingertips on Google. Is it right to assume that it really is Googles fault when there is not much factual evidence to back that up? The argument that Carr presents to us in his article is problematic in that he provides weak evidence and insufficient assumptions but includes many strong viewpoints from other recognized scholars. A piece of evidence Carr provides is that as a part of a five-year research program from the University College London, "scholars examined computer logs documenting the behavior of visitors... they found that people using the sites exhibited a "form of skimming activity," hopping from one source to another"(738). On what evidence is he basing this claim and how do they know they didn't read it and ever go back to look through it again? Even though during the research program, they were able to conclude "some students would save a longer article, there …show more content…
Being that Carr titled his work, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", why does he think that it is only Googles fault? Technology is growing every single day and we are the ones creating it and changing the way we do things. Carr claims that his "concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages... deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle"(735). I agree that this happens to a lot of people, it even happened to me reading his article. I believe that now that we know we can get most articles that are more condensed and have all the same information, we don't want to do the hard work of finding anything