The title of the article makes you think of how are we stupid using gooing. Carr capture his audience attention using an allusion from Stanley Kubrick movie 2001, A Space Odyssey. He made his point from the movie with the Supercomputer HAL plead. Gaping any reader who has watch A Space Odyssey or interested in any supercomputer stuff to his article. He highlight the fact that a computer could think for you.
“I’ve lost the ability to do that.” appealing to our pathos because no one would ever want to lose ability to do something, As a hockey player myself I would be depressed if I lost the ability to do what I love and skate and score goals. Carr is trying to get the point out for us to appeal to his sense of his ability to read being obstructed by the internet and prolong usage. It was a very strong point to use pathos there because it made us engaged to the story behind the frustration to read. When referencing a popular movie ‘A Space Odyssey’, the author is appealing to pathos.
Vargas 1 Internet In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” the author Nicholas Carr suggests the idea of the internet can make people concentrate less on reading two or three pages. Carr senses his attention span decreases whenever he tries to read an article. He believes it's because the internet is making us slothful. The internet can be significant to our life making it easier for people to find what they are looking for, but it's making us have trouble reading lengthy articles.
Rhetorical Analysis of Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid? We are at a time where technology is widespread; it has become a part of our everyday life leading to advantages and disadvantages. Technology nowadays has become the most important topic to discuss and everyone has developed their own unique opinion. In Nicholas Carr’s article published in 2008, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” he argues that as technology progresses people’s mentality changes.
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...
Are readers to believe that the internet decreases one’s intelligence? Nicholas Carr, a prolific writer, argues that the more people use the web the harder it is to concentrate and stay focused. Is it fair to say the internet decreases people’s intelligence just because it can be more difficult to focus? Nicholas Carr’s argument in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” could be problematic due to flawed evidence and assumptions and possibly failure to address different points of view. First of all, Carr does provide some flawed evidence.
In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Nicholas Carr Provides his theory on how the internet is having a negative impact on the way people think and process with their brains. Carr states that, “I think I know what’s going on. For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet.” (409) Carr simply puts it out there that we as human beings spend way too much time on our computers, tablets, phones, and other handheld devices that seem to chip away at our brains. Spending a lot of time online seems to sometimes make us “zombie-like”.
He decided to write this article during the midterm election to help educate voters that they need to be better informed about a topic before they make a decision. Nicholas Carr, the author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” is an American writer
Brainless.com: Rhetorical Strategies in Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Do we depend on the Internet to answer all of our questions? Nicholas Carr, an American author, wrote “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” published in 2008 in The Atlantic, and he argues about the effects of the Internet on literacy, cognition, and culture. Carr begins his argument with the ending scene of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Impactful Internet In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he writes about how the internet is impacting our need for efficiency, our concentration, and our thought process. He travels back in time and explores modern problems to paint a picture of our future. Carr connects different main ideas throughout his writing.
Some of his main points that he pointed out was that how we have became too reliant on the Internet and never really learn the material because we have such easy access to this information. Just like how Plato explained on a stone slab a thousand years ago, and just like my example about my truck. Also he mentions that how our minds are becoming warped with reading tons of quick articles that are full of information and having a negative effect on us when we try to read long lengthy articles or books together information, without drifting off and not paying attention to the reading. Finally Carr’s main point of his reading is that he is just worried for up in coming generation of internet users are going to become to dependent on the internet, and even try to make a super computer that is smarter than our brain. Lastly I do believe in what Carr is talking about of how we are becoming to depend towards the Internet, and that how it is shaping our minds.
14 Nov. 2015. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr makes the argument that the search engine giant and center of the internet’s access to knowledge could actually be having a negative impact on our minds. The article begins by talking about how the Internet can be a guide to infinite knowledge for the masses. In turn, he is theorizing that our construct of knowledge is becoming solely dependent on technology. He makes the assertion that it is becoming a crutch for our productivity and attention span “The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing.”
In Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” I disagree that his use of support doesn’t work to make his point in this essay because it is too biased. Carr’s article shows a lot of support to his hate towards the internet by quoting himself along with his other fellow writers who are a part of an older generation like Carr himself and only includes one study from University College London. Carr mainly focuses on his anecdotes to help support his essay which really doesn’t give the audience actual information, although he makes a compelling point that Google or the internet itself is making us stupid, but what Carr has not included was any evidence about the good parts about the internet. What Carr was lacking in his essay was that
Nowadays, the internet is the biggest marketing and media tool that people can use today. It can have various effects on people’s daily life ranging from bad to beneficial. In the essay “Is Google making us stupid” by Nicholas Carr writes about how internet usage in the 21st century is changing people’s reading habit and a cognitive concentration. Particularly, he emphasizes on Google’s role in this matter and its consequences on making people machine like. Carr also stated that the online reading largely contributes to people’s way of reading a book.
The Influence of Technology In the essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr argues that utilization of the internet has an adverse effect on our way of thinking and functioning in everyday life. Whether it be reading a newspaper, or scrolling through Facebook, internet media has forever stamped its name in our existence. Carr explains to us that the internet is a tool used every single day in today’s society, but also makes most of us complacent with the ease of having the world at our fingertips.
