Rhetorical Reading Response: “How Stupid Is Google Making Us?” “How is Google Making Us stupid” (2008), an article written by William Badke, claims that society is becoming dependent on search engines and making the younger generations obsolete to deep reading. Badke says that he lost his ability for continuous reading the longer he worked online. Badke’s apparent purpose was to shed light on the seriousness of not using all your resources in order to show that more and more people are becoming dependent on the internet to have all the answers. The author directs his article towards anyone who is interested in technology or someone who feels that technology is making the world lazy.
After reading this article, I conclude that some parts of Badke’s article hold some truth. When you have a search engine that gives you all the answers, you become more accustom to just looking things up and taking whatever answer you find instead of researching and reading many sources. I feel that technology taking over is a great thing. Although it makes life lazier, having a computerize library helps find information faster and takes up less time going and finding every book for your research. Personally, I feel that if someone does not have a deep concern for the information being asked for, when researching anything might do.
Badke develops his article by using his own personal experience to relate to the main purpose of deep reading. Badke says, “The longer we worked online, the less tolerance we have for concentration and contemplation” (pg. 196). To some degree this statement is true. When searching online you are limited to what has been posted by other user, and only get the information they deem necessary to that topic. If you have an interest in the topic studied then there will be no limit to what and how long you will read. When Badke was researching this topic he left out the fact that people read what they want to read no matter if it’s in a book or online.

Works Cited
Badke, William. “How Stupid Is Google Making Us?” Connections: Guide to First Year Writing at Clayton State University Ed. Mary Lamb. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead, 2012. 196-201. Print.
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