Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

In Nicholas Carr’s News Magazine “Is Google Making Us stupid”?; what is the internet doing to our brain(July/August 2008) he argues that the internet is preventing us from developing crucial learning and reading skills, however giving us positive skills like the ability to process and see things faster.The Author introduces his topic by providing us with a scene from Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey; he then connects his scene to his everyday life anecdotal evidence that suggest that the internet has shaped our minds (in terms of crucial skills like reading) and to conclude he states evidence from studies and personal experiences from the late 1900’s, coming to the conclusion that technology has shaped our human minds making them more artificial.The

For example he demonstrates to us the negative effect the internet has had on our skills when he says “ And what the net seems to be doings is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation”(4). Both concentration and contemplation are crucial to a human being to be able to read at a high level and he feels like the internet is taking those skills away from him. Leaving him with the ability to read a piece of text at the pace of a turtle and in a super low level. However he doesn't feel the internet has only left us with deficits, but has given us some benefits like speed and efficiency giving us the ability to find something in a matter of seconds that once would have taken us days essentially gives us “Maximum speed, Maximum efficiency, and Maximum output”.He knows that the internet has been beneficial in some ways, as a writer the ability to save hours on on research is everything. The internet has been beneficial in many ways but Carr's wonders at what cost, what is he losing in the

The internet has been very beneficial but has taken some incredibly crucial skills. For instance a friend of Carr’s was a lit major and he inctilby found himself in the same problems as Carr the friend saw that “the more they used the web, the more they fight to stay focused on a piece of text”(5). A person who used to be a “Various Reader” lost the ability to read, it's just crazy to see how much the internet can affect you. I mean for god sakes if person who dedicated his life to literature lost the ability to read something then you can truly see how the internet has affected us. Sadly I must admit i have the same problems as Carr's friend and Carr i too have the lost the ability to read and even though i am no lit major i spent years learning not only to read but to read at a high level and now i have lost that. Not only can i say the the internet has been detrimental to our reading skill from other people's experiences, but from my own as well. Not trying to sound conceited but i used to be a great reader it used to be one of my favorites things to do, i used to be able to read a whole book in a matter of a day, but now it's totally different story to read book nowadays it takes me about a week and a half or two. After i read Carr's article i see why that's happened to me all i do now these days if i need to know somethings about a book or another piece of text i just go on the