“My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” (Carr, Nicholas “Is Google making us stupid?”) I have asked myself the question “Is Google making us stupid?” (Carr) a dozen times while trying to write this paper. For me, we are only as stupid as we give ourselves credit for, Google or no Google. When I think of all the things that I would love to know, I don’t blame the Internet, Google or the amazing strides that technology has taken over the decades for my inherent stupidity on certain matters. I blame myself, for not taking the time or using the resources that are amazing displayed to me through libraries, computers or the people who hold the knowledge within them. Google is not making us stupid, it’s just another thing that we can blame for our stupidity.
Scientifically there may be valid points to Carr’s essay in regards to how people process information today compared to ages ago. Carr begins his essay…show more content… Google, Internet, the vast and many ways people today have at their disposal to learn and obtain information is how the current generations are being raised. With opinions coming from someone who has been adapted to the Internet for most of her life, people today are not learning the Internet or Google but being raised with it and how to handle, grow and evolve with the information at their fingertips. Carr believes that the Internet won’t allow the “intellectual vibrations” (Carr, Nicholas “Is Google making us stupid?”) that printed words would leave with us. Having self control, taking responsibility of your learning, growing with the information and taking in what you feel will help you learn best is how anyone will learn the best. It’s about not becoming
