When asked almost any question, most people immediately refer to search engines, like Google. The convenience and efficiency are so tempting that typing inquiries into a search bar has become second nature, especially to younger generations, partially eliminating fluid thought. As Nicholas Carr writes in his essay, Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” “Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski” (Carr 227). Having access to a virtually infinite engine that can contain virtually infinite amounts of information has stumped human originality and manipulated reason. Google and other searching sites, although helpful, are slowly causing society to digress because they eradicate the necessity for complex thought and creative ideas. With innumerable amounts of discoveries being made daily, the need for databases is essential. Nevertheless, humans have become too dependent on them. Though technology provides valuable information that can …show more content…
For example, a student who is struggling in any class may turn toward the Internet for information. Although this may start off as an innocent endeavor to further his or her understanding on a topic, it can quickly escalate to a detrimental action. The student, however bright, may think that the countless points of data on the Net are there for his or her taking. A task that started out as a clever use of resources turned into an abuse of them. To solve this problem, the student has to be taught that the Internet should only be used as a final resort, when all other options have been exhausted; this ensures that the learner’s ideas are fresh and genuine instead of stale and overused. After all, if every student uses the same sites for the same data, the Internet is not actually furthering learning at all; instead, it is stunting the formation of new, modern ideas from