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
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? Over the years, the internet has drastically altered the way we take in information. In this article, Nicholas Carr’s argument explains how the internet has caused him to lose focus when reading critically. Overall, it is hurting our attention spans and distracting us from fully taking in the text we read. Because the internet gives us answers in almost no time at all, we’re not working as hard anymore to dig deep and find the answers ourselves. He concludes that the
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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
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three pages. “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. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy.” (Carr, “ Is google making us stupid?”, theatlantic.com, July/August 2008 Issue) Carr talks about how over the past couple of years for him like someone or something has been “tinkering” with his brain, remapping and reprogramming it. As if he isn't losing it but its changed
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opportunity of deep thinking. Google, and other new tools that we can use, is definitely bringing a mind change. As Nicholas Carr has noticed, those new tools and method lead to a change in our way of both learning and living. Max Planck once said, “A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” And it is the same case as Google. It is till being critiqued
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D-Hall options Editorial As any student who has been on a non D-hall meal plan knows, it’s difficult to convince yourself to eat there when you have to use flex bucks or real money. D-hall costs over 7$ for students without a meal plan. That cost is the same regardless of how much you intend to eat, a detail that can be very frustrating. 7$ may not seem like very much, but when you are operating on a fixed income like many college students are, it becomes rather expensive to eat at D-hall.
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Chamber of Commerce’s Impact on Small Businesses Tran Nguyen Business: Intro to Entrepreneurship October 13, 2014 The Chamber of Commerce helps small business owner chamber members promote their business in a variety of ways. The business owner’s product and service can be advertised to other local chamber members as well as the community. The commerce can introduce the owner to local retailers who may be interested in carrying the owner’s product in their store. The business owner name will
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more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking- perhaps even a new sense of self”(Carr, P.g 2). The article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the internet is doing to our brains”, is an interesting article written by critically acclaimed author Nicholas Carr. Nicholas Carr speaks upon how the internet is losing one's ability to concentrate on large physical texts or regular
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“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
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ENGL 1101/ F October 7, 2014 Google May Just Be Making Us Stupid The ability to perform research in just about every aspect of society. Thanks to modern technology a great deal of this research is readily available and right at our fingertips. In the world today many people have begun to rely on google as a primary means of finding this information. Because of this, it is thought that google may be “Making Us Stupid”. The article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr provides a
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