To quote the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid - Yes”, “If we’re distracted, we understand less, remember less, and learn less.” So in other words if we are always distracted we will become a world full of boring, ill-minded people. People who are distracted on their phones nowadays are walking into fountains and running into the street getting hit by cars. This is chaos! If we would just stop for one week and put a space between us and technology, we could see how truly great
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Is Google Making us Stupid ? What the Internet is doing to our brains Although the Internet has only been around for the last couple ot decades, it has already become our main source of information. Furthermore it also keeps us constantly connected to friends and family and it is hard to imagine life without it anymore. However aside from all this the Internet has a dark side too: it has made us dependent. The World Wide Web has become man‘s best friend. Never has a communication technology played
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the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Nicholas carr mentions that today “americans from ages 12 to 24 spend about three hours on the internet.” In This essay I will speak of the negative and positive impacts and or consequences that come from all the time we spend using technology. As we continue to utilize technology more and more, we begin to further away from other things like books. The internet has completely destroyed our way of thinking. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Carr talks about
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“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, was fairly well written. The article as whole was well researched but when getting to the specifics some parts were incorrect such as blaming the search engines for people’s poor research skills or lack thereof. The article as the title states is about how the author believes that because of advancements in technology and the availability of search engines, which eased the research process, makes us use our brains a lot less thereby making us stupid
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The two readings I was going to use for this next essay was Martin Luther King’s “A Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr. The two reading are drastically different from each other. Kings letter was written during a time when there was a lot of racial injustice in our country. King was addressing the treatment of African Americans in our country and how it needed to be stopped. Carr’s article is explaining his thoughts on how he believes the internet is causing
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said this because technology personally ruined Carr’s good reading habits. Paying attention to long pieces of writing is now harder for Carr, due to his habit of constantly reading from electronic screens, opposed to books. In his book “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” it writes, ”The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle”(Carr 314). This particular quote shows the negative effects of technology. As a result of too much internet use, Carr, a heavy reader, lost his focus easily
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with Technology As our technology advances, are we are becoming more or less social? To what level does social and psychological factors are inflicted on an individual? Moreover I propose the consideration that technology may drive us, for lack of a better word, stupid. I scrutinize this inquiry to myself every time I see somebody using a social networking website (such as Facebook not to mention Twitter), or when somebody is ceaselessly texting their friends and/or family on their cellular phone
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has become very common to go online because it makes research and socializing easier. The internet is a great place for social networking and meeting or communicating with people across the world. Nicholas Carr, author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, claims that using the internet can make people less intelligent. After spending a number of days researching on the topic of internet use, I have came to agree with Carr. I not only agree with him, that using the internet does make internet
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have entered a state of obliviousness on how little knowledge and wisdom we truly have. It is very interesting to think about on how technology especially the television could affect our attention span and the information that is being given to us. In Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” he states a precise point “the average length of a shot on network television is only 3.5 seconds, so that the eye never rests, always has something to see” (86). This statement alone shows and proves on
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everyone. However, the internet has taken over human’s ability to read and interpret long passages of information. It is important to understand how and why the internet is harmful. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, the author provides evidence and theories on how the internet is making us “stupid”. The internet has a negative effect
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