In Nicholas Carr's article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” the author argues that the Internet has become a new form of acquiring knowledge in people’s lives. Additionally, the author supports his own statement by demonstrating that within just a few clicks, one can instantly gain any information or article online without the need to visit and search a physical library. However, even though the Internet ameliorates the quality and quantity of resources to gain knowledge, he believes that as the source of knowledge is replaced by a convenient web page, society becomes easily distracted. In Clive Thompson's article, “Smarter Than You Think.
Nicholas Carr, an American writer who publishes books and articles on technology, business, and culture, wrote the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid.” This article reaches out to all to discuss how technology, mainly the internet, affects humans and how they process information. Carr gives various examples to explain his claim on why the internet might have negative effects on us. For example, he talks about how the use of the internet takes our focus away from our writings. Carr uses a new e-mail message as an example of distraction because when we receive an e-mail, we take our attention to it and our concentration fades away.
People need to process big information scopes both at work and in home, and their brains adapt to this pressure. It leads to the change of information perception as the person starts to focus on key words and ideas in the work. The Internet (and other media) gives an opportunity to do it because of the abundance of abstracts, summaries and advanced search algorithms. Blogger complains that he “can’t read War and Peace anymore” (Carr 3) is not necessarily a sign of dullness; it can just show the brain does not want to work with such volume of “dilute” data. Carr’s words are not the direct demonstration the brain became more stupid, they can be a sign it is just more tired of the textual information, as the author admitted people read more today.
Adapting to Infinite Information Do you think reading this article might make you stupid? Did you end up here using Google or any search engine some way shape or form to reach this article? Chances are that the answer to both of these questions is the same, according to Carr’s recent article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr then goes on to explain the advance in technology lead to an ease of receiving large amounts of information very quickly, so quickly in fact that the readers now lose focus on what they were reading and skip to the next article.
Today, the widespread proliferation of available information has caused our modern era to be dubbed the “Information Age”. Never before have so many people had access to so many sources of previously specialized knowledge and
Clay Shirky, the author of “Does the internet make you smarter?” wrote about how ignorance has poisoned the internet with incorrect information. Not only does technology has its flaws, but so do books and novels dating back to the Protestant Reformation. Even though many people are against the internet Shirky reassures that if used correctly and appropriately, then it can become a very useful tool that can “tap our cognitive surplus”. The increased collaboration of technology is important to society for the reason that the internet is full of valuable knowledge that can be claimed very quickly and easily. Increased collaboration is absolutely a benefit.
Simply concentrating has become hard to do. “The deep reading that used to come naturally has became a struggle.” (Carr 731) Carr feels as so his mind is being influenced by the technological advancements. Even as a writer he still struggles reading a book, because of the lack of concentration he now has.
The modernization of the web can have positive and negative consequences on the world. It is sure in light of the fact that it gives everyone the power to access any information, that they need in second. In any case, it is contrary since individuals start to get limited focus and just focus on the things they need to see as opposed to seeing the full picture. To begin with, The Loneliness of the Interconnected is an essay on how the internet
Lesson 1, Activity 1 In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, author, Nicholas Carr, describes the how complex the information age and believes that the internet weakens reading concentration our civilization. Thought the internet provides advantages of immediate access for searching, Carr feels the internet is decreasing people’s ability to read information on a deeper level. I do not agree with his point of view.
A child has a noticeable capacity for attention or concentration, which is an adjustment of the mental faculties, in co-operation with physical faculties, to the reception of certain stimuli in preference to all others. A student concentrating on his textbook is giving attention to his reading, and to his consideration of that reading, above everything else for the moment. His stimulus to such attention is perhaps interest in the subject, or the desire to profit by its study and mastery. William L. Schaaf of Brooklyn College said “When we attend to what we are doing, we concentrate our faculties upon it. This means that we shut out, so far as we can, all distracting stimuli and adjust our muscle as well as our minds to the matter in hand”.
Not too long after, the creation of e-mail came about. This was an easy form of communication from person to person. Since invented, the internet has became a problem. This is not referring to technological errors; but, the harmful virus that continues to rapidly spread throughout our world. This has
Similarly, the need to take in all this information at once has decreased our productivity. Instead of working diligently on the task on hand, the student clicks on the newest link that pops up on his newsfeed. Technology has degraded the human race’s ability to ignore distractions, and consequently reduces quality and productivity of our work.
Technology began to rise when the World Wide Internet was introduced on August 6, 1991. Throughout the years people have been on the bend to make technology bigger and better. With the advancement of cell phones, fax machines, computers and televisions the way things were 20 years ago are so much different. Technology has made us see the world at a different angle.
According to this theory we seal off all other incoming information and focus to one particular information (Galotti, 2004). For example in this context, during lectures, students should pay attention to the lecturer and not talking to their friends as brain focus to on only one information at time. In addition to that, filter theory also suggests that there are boundaries in how much attention can be taken in in a certain amount of time (Galotti, 2004). For instance, when a student pays full attention to the lecturer without any distraction, he or she can retrieve better information during exam and apply in the exam. This is also because memory can be increased with attention (Turner & Engle, 1989).
This high correspondence with the Internet gave a beginning to the one of the most popular trends which emerged
