electronic devices like children and adolescents do today. Those generations actually sat down to read a book, while teens and children of today skim over what they are given to read, or look it up on the internet. In Nicholas Carr’s, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, He talks about how society has progressed from technology and also how it makes people lazy. Instead of hours of research and actually learning about a topic, students can use the internet and find the answer with a couple clicks
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has published in the New York times, the Wall street Journal and many other periodicals. In his story he argues that the internet has come a log way from what it was intended to. He argues pro technology because according to him internet has helped us out a lot. The author Maryanne wolf who wrote learning to think in a new world is a professor in the Eliot-Pearson department of child development at tufts university. Her accolades are: distinguished teacher of the year award, and the teaching excellence
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good for us and moving us forward, or is it making us regress as a species? The question made me curious, so I dove into research. The first step in my research was the most obvious, I typed in 'Does technology decrease intelligence?' into Google. The first article that popped up was from Medical Daily' and after looking at the sources and the page, I decided it was a pretty credible read. The article makes many good points, an interesting one being that technology literally affects us physically
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As Nicholas Carr said in his article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, “When I mention my troubles with reading to friends and acquaintances--literary types, most of them-- many say they’re having similar experiences. The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing
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Aly Chandler Kathryn Hinds English 1101 9-15-13 The Net and Its Harmful Impacts Technology today is advancing at a rapid rate, causing society to immerse itself deeper and deeper into the trap of “artificial intelligence” (615). “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is an article written by Nicholas Carr that conveys his own feelings and concerns about the internet and how it effects society. I would consider this article an argument based on the strong awareness he shows about the consequences of too
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constantly staring at screens, always in touch with one another, and rely on it heavily in our daily lives. Almost all of us carry a piece of it in our pocket and use it like we use oxygen. If not, then we're staring at a screen. Our generation is among the first to have a major role in whom the Age of the Internet actually affects. We have grown up, literally, in front of a screen. Most of us can't even remember a time when the Internet did not exist. Because our generation will some day lead the world,
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nowadays. Humans are constantly checking social media, texts, and email. Rarely do we take a step back a think about what the consequences of this constant, technological stimulation is doing to our brains. An article by Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” makes the claim that the internet is dulling or changing the way our brains think and operate. Carr explains these changes saying how he is having problems focusing, and gets fidgety when reading. He continues by explaining how prevalent
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In Is Google Making us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr, Carr states that the use of technology and the internet has made it harder for him to read. “Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something
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a status on Facebook. The information, however, presented is detrimental to the way people think, the way they organize their thoughts and concentrate on a single idea presented. The internet has benefitted us but perhaps it has misguided our brains. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Bruce Friedman describes his thinking as “staccato” he is talking about reading in a shortened form. When people read or see something on the internet, it has already been through the thought process of someone
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Is Google Making Us Stupid and Facebook as a Crowd? The author begins this article by a brief description of the closing scene in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A space odyssey when Dave dismantles the memory circuits of Hal, an artificial brain that controls the space ship. He feels that someone is tinkering with the brain to make it change. He also goes into saying he doesn’t enjoy reading anymore of any length of time because he can’t really concentrate on the book. He’s not thinking the way he used
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