“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and “Connectivity and Its Discontents”
In the articles, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and “Connectivity and Its Discontents” the main core topic of both articles is conveying that the internet is the first place we go to for information. The authors study has shown it affects our way of reading books, articles and research papers. Even though this process may offer knowledge is accurate, it shortens our brain’s learning ability in its process. The first thing Carr addresses is that there is a problem with technology getting way over our heads.
He states it is difficult for him to comprehend anything he is trying to read, “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle” (Cam 2). In this particular article Cam compares how our mind is changing with computers are getting into people’s minds like how time affected us back then. He describes how before the internet, clocks people did things by impulse. He provides example like how people could sleep when they were tired and eat when they were hungry, but after the invention of the clock, people suddenly had certain time intervals to do certain things.
“Connectivity and its Discontents” by Sherry Turkle is an article that expresses the unfavorable impacts of the social network and technology in general. Turkle provides us with an example of a conference with its audience having the ability to video call during presentation and socializing. A person could be with a group of people yet also be in their own little world, avoiding the rest of his group. She describes how online networking affects us and is the major cause of loneliness. Yanking people from their everyday lives to be chained to their electronic device (Turkle 620). We see this every day; at the park, movies, and family dinners. People are not enjoying nature or their creativity all because of social network. It is sad to see how the internet is changing the way we do regular things and taking time away from our everyday lives just to check on what other people are doing.
Between these two articles the differences are the views on social activity that affects our intelligence. Does social media really take over our lives and affect the way we do things. It appears these two authors have a few differences. Carr is saying that the internet is useful but it takes away the whole point of the knowledge sticking with you. We don’t really bother studying the topic anymore because we just search it up and use it and forget about it. Rather than taking the time studying and understanding the topic. And Turkle dismisses the internet and says it brings nothing but negative characteristics that affect us (622). Which she is right, it does affect our ability to learn, our social life, and also the way some of us see ourselves.
As there are differences there are also similarities like technology, ethics, and its impacts on how it transformed humanity. The use of “intellectual technologies” is the internet and its immense knowledge that we don’t have. Technology is growing rapidly, with new inventions every 4-6 months every fiscal year. How has technology transformed us into what we are today? To some it has gave us a new meaning to our social lives, meeting new friends, sharing our memories with the world, or even updating on how we’ve been doing. Then there are some that take it seriously and don’t do anything but just on the internet wasting their lives away. Not enjoying the pleasures that life gives us all to be on the internet. To conclude the internet is a place where we can find information on multiple subjects, also a place where social media takes up about most of our day. Both Carr and Turkle understand the negative effects of overusing the internet and its limit. Technology is advancing, its ethics are on good morals and it does continue to transform our human race. Where it influences our social life, mind, intelligence and infinite access to everything.

Works Cited
Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Atlantic. The Atlantic, July 2008. Web. 27 Mar. 2014.
Turkle, Sherry. “Connectivity and Its Discontents.” Fields of Reading. Ed. Nancy Comley et.al. Boston: Bedford, 2013. 619-623. Print.