...has also has made some humans lazy. The need for reading, writing and vocal communication has diminished since the 1980’s, when the internet was created. Many people like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Page have used the internet to innovate and create revenue. However, with any form of business there must be vendors and consumers; on the internet the consumer can buy products, enjoy entertainment, and socialize with others from the comfort of his or her...
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...Is Google making us stupid? This text is an article by Nicholas Carr. The article was posted on www.theatlantic.com the 1st of July 2008. Primarily the text deals with how the Internet has affected the human brain through the years and the consequences of the constant and raising search on the Internet. Nicholas Carr has managed to write an article in an amazing way, in where he really catches the readers’ attention, even from the first lines. In this essay my focus will be the three appeals, the structure and the audience of this article. Nicholas Carr has managed to construct this article in a very remarkable way. He introduces the essay with sentences from a movie in which a supercomputer takes control of the world. Maybe Nicholas think that that supercomputer very well could be a regular computer today because in some way the computers have taken control over the human brain through the years. He claims this because every person nowadays have either a computer with Internet or at some point have been to the Internet elsewhere. He simply thinks that people have become too lazy and if something is bothering them, they can just pick up the computer, write a few lines and “bum” there’s their answer, to what they were looking for. Simple and easy. Nicholas also manages to make a link and a fluently transition between the introduction and the main text. In the end of the introduction it says, “I can feel it. I can feel it.” And when he starts the main text it says, “I can...
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...Meghan Humphrey Professor Shae Anderson Advanced Composition 12 October 2013 Has Technology made us lazy? According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, technology means the use of science in industry, engineering, etc., to invent useful things or solve problems. Technology has advanced so much in today’s society. Cell phones once weighed 2.5 pounds whereas now they weigh less than a pound. Technology has made living life easier by creating cars that are able to parallel park themselves, cellphones that will finish our words and sentences. Noticing all these advancements in technology, it makes me ask myself, has technology made us lazy? Technology is an important factor in today’s world. Technology has improved many aspects of people’s lives. It has improved communication, television, travel, and the World Wide Web. Before the advancement of the telephone, news had to travel by means of stage coach, rail road and postal service. “Whether the communication was an update from one family member to another or an emergency message the outcome was that it was received equally slow” (Cooper). Televisions advancement added a “visual medium to the communication method better than radio” (Cooper). The improvement with news helped individuals follow items such as “weather disasters, presidential elections, and other country news soon after it happened and more recently in real time. This visual exposure has caused individuals to be held more accountable and has kept the public more informed”...
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...Is Google making us stupid? ENG 111-29b Professor Ruth 09-10-2012 Davante Williams Once I read this article by Carr I began to think about what Carr was trying to say and explain to the reader this quote explains the idea that the Internet has not only completely changed our lives forever but that nobody really knows how the Internet is making and changing our world. I definitely believe that the Internet has changed my viewing of the world and made my life a whole lot easier. Along with the fact that the Internet has made my life easier, it has also made me a much lazier person just by the simple fact that I can type anything into any search engine, such as Google, and receive an answer just by a simple “click” of my mouse. It really has made me think and wonder what life would be like without Internet, I seriously cannot even imagine it. I have grown up with Internet and do not know life without it. I consider myself to be somewhat of a lazy person and tend to slack in some areas of my life, I have been seriously considering if I did not have Internet to simplify my life’s needs that maybe I would become an overall less lazy person. I think chances are high for that and that I definitely would become automatically less lazy. I definitely agree with the author in the sense that Google, along with everything on the Internet, has made the human race a much lazier group and rely on a piece of technology instead of relying on each other and trying to improve ourselves as...
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...Rodrigo Contreras 11/26/2012 Randy Ringen Technology Dependence Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a preexisting solution to a problem, achieve a goal and perform a specific function (Wikipedia). Technology generally speaking is the process by which humans adapt nature to meet their needs and wants. According to a study performed from May 2010 to May 2011, Google receives 1 billion unique visitors per month; from math homework to relationship problems. Google gives its users the ability to search on a variety of topics. Just an example on how humans have become too dependent on technology. By becoming too dependent on technology will give negative effects to our ability to think, our education, and we will become lethargic. Many people believe we are losing our ability to think because we now have computers to give us the answers and to even correct our spelling. The mere thought of having a helping hand called the "Internet" in situations that you can solve all by yourself, is the sign of dependence. I feel that technology interferes with our ability to think and work for one, by making information too accessible for us. We can simply look something up, the answer is there, and we don't have to think or explore the subject. Everything is on the internet. Technology, with games, Facebook on the go, and texting, provides constant...
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...In this essay by Carr Nicholas “ Is Google Making Us Stupid” and published by The Atlantic in JULY/AUGUST 2008 ISSUE. Carr’s main point in his essay is that internet is making us dumb. He states, “ The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing” (Carr 315). I may agree with his argument but also i would also have a disagreement because internet does help in many cases but not all the time. Many people use google to find what they want, although we may feel like google is the answer to everything. Sometimes that goes to show that we as a society are so use to technology that we don’t even bother trying to look for an answer reading a book. Using the internet “Google” also has advantages, making a research much faster than going to the library reading books all day. Carrs points out how he used to read long articles with no problem. Now he can’t anymore he says “Now my concentration often starts to drift two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread,...
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...Essay 1: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” summary and response Summary: In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. The article begins with that the Internet is the excellent resource where we can find whatever we want for everything, and we are becoming more and more dependent on it in the field of writing, reading and so on. Afterwards, Carr claims that it has a large distraction on our mind, and we even cannot concentrate on a long reading material. As he said, technology is becoming more important than people. In the end, he also tells us that Google is trying to invent an artificial brain to replace our "slow" brains that we already have. In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. He views the idea that the Internet is an obstacle for individuals to think deeply, and it is rebuilding our mind and memory. As Carr said, nowadays, it is so difficult for him to focus on a long paper; instead, he always spends a lot of time on the Internet. In the past, the writers like him should stay in the library to study for several days, but now, because of the Internet, it just...
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...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...
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...Analysis, Response “A Google, Google, Google, Google World” McCracken, Harry. "A Google, Google, Google, Google World." PC World Communications, Inc. 28.8 (2005): 17-18. Print. “A Google, Google, Google, Google World” by Harry McCracken, in PC World is an article that touches on the uses of Google as a search engine. McCracken states in his article Google’s slogan "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful”. But he goes on to mention that Google now, more than ever seems to be taking the far-reaching implications of those words quite literally. The article talks about all of the incoming innovations that are being created through Google such as the Picasa Pictures, Gmail, Google Print and...
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...The time is 8:45am. I am just starting this assignment that was tasked to the class a week ago. I do not have any valid excuses for my procrastination. Unless I can get away with the “I was distracted by technology” excuse. The technology has made it difficult to accomplish “intellectual tasks” on my one day off from work or school. I guess in a way technology has made me dumber. However, I'm not sure if technology has made us dumber. I watched the PBS debate titled Is Technology Making Us Smarter or Dumber?. I feel like team dumber made a couple great points on technology making us dumber. For example, they mentioned how Google caters it's search responses to what we have already searched. Google tells us what we want to hear. The bad thing is that because Google does this we can not open up our world views as easily. They argued that most people take what they see on the internet at face value and don't bother to see any deeper. They are basically saying that we are too lazy to research and don't bother to search beyond the first page of Google search results. Team dumber mentioned the GPS. One of the members mentioned how we rely...
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...English 1101 19 September 2014 Googling for Convenience In The Atlantic magazine article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” the author, Nicholas Carr, conveys his complications with concentration while reading long articles and books. Carr blames the Internet for retraining his brain and states that, “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory” (1). There could be many reasons for the change that Carr has noticed. Perhaps his age is changing the way his brain processes information. I doubt that the Internet is the cause of his concentration issues. Contrary to Carr’s opinion of the Internet creating concentration difficulties, I believe the Internet works as a tool to enable us to use our time more wisely, efficiently, and productively. I can now use my time more wisely, because the days wasted on trips to the library have become a thing of the past. Nowadays, the library comes to me. I find this to be a better use of my time and allows me time to pursue more enjoyable activities. Even Carr agrees that research has become easier, through the use of the Internet, when he states, “The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after”...
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...different reactions. These advancements are what have led to the invention of Google. Google, which is an information site, has made academic life very easy. It is now easier to access information of different times within a short period. However, the effect of Google has led to a lot of controversies. Is Google really making us stupid or clever. This question requires a lot of insight and analysis in order to answer it. Some people say that Google makes us to be stupid while others are of the contrasting idea. Each side has given substantial evidence supporting their idea. Nevertheless, Google is of much benefit rather than making us stupid. Some professions argue that it has its own disadvantages and hence makes us stupid. One of this is that Google makes people lazy and hence stupid. Google provides all the required information to people and thus an individual is only required to press and find the answer (Sparrow et al, 2011). This is seen to...
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...DELOYAL KERSHAW PHYSICAL NETWORKING CLOUD COMPUTING RESEARCH Starting with Amazon EC2 which is Elastic Compute Cloud, they say their a company that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. When it comes to clouds they can be used not only to perform specific tasks but they can handle a wide range of technologies plugged together to support the operations of whatever company has access to it, and whatever that company is using, plus with Amazon EC2 you can you can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously. According to the amazon link provided Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios. Amazon supports a high number of languages. One major like I found on this site is you pay for only what you use, and they have a range of instance types from some as simple as storage, to cluster computing for higher performance, they also have network security tools so the user can control who can access their computers or who can’t access certain information. Amazon says their EC2 has 99.95% availability for each Amazon EC2 Region. The main upsides that catch my interest are price, security, and reliability, I believe this will be the main hook to catch customers interest when it comes to Amazons EC2 September 13, 2013 Amazons EC2 had a network issues that cause amazon to have a cloud outage and “The company also experienced increased error rates...
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...infestation. When you ask them something their fingers go tap tap on their mobile devices to ‘google’ the answer. Even to check what time it is, they rely on their devices to know the date and time. It is certainly alarming to see the amount of human dependence on these gadgets because their absence would certainly render these...
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...warm or cold, which are both almost necessities in daily life. But then we also have some of the most powerful machines being the ones that ca gives you the most information, entertainment, and have the ability to engulf us for hours until eye soreness finally becomes too much to handle. Not only do these things make us stupider, they also can change the way we perceive the world we live in. The internet can change us. This is what Author Nicholas Carr believes. Carr is the author of, “Is Google Making Us Stupider”, he worries that google is rotting our brain to change how we think and perceive information, much like a robot. He voices his concerns with Google and the internet, I attempted to remediate and few of his paragraphs in this article to see If I could give some more insight on his pre-publishing thoughts. I created a Facebook profile for Carr because he would’ve too, he thinks public information is the fastest way to gain a popular opinion. I used Facebook as a way to try and show his prewriting before editing through his paper, giving some new...
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