Summary: How Could Google Make USupid?

How Could Google Make Us Stupid? Within Carr’s text, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, he states many different points related to technology and the human mind. He talks about how many do not analyze or read into detail what the text says but use Google to find the answer. He talks about how he feels as if his brain is withering away because of the technological advances that are taking place. While he also talks about how as a writer he has lost much of his ability to stay focused and pull detail from the text. This is because he started to use the internet to do his research for his writing instead of spending hours on end finding information in books and articles that are found within a library. He expresses his feelings of distance from reading because of the …show more content…
He says it is hard for him to read books if he knows the information can be found much quicker through Google or the internet in general. As a high school student as well as a college student it is a very easy to research on the web instead of reading for hours on end to find a few pieces of information. This also has taken a toll on my attention span because my parents express how low of an attention span that is present in my life. Many have the same problem with their attention span. Another article states, “The average attention span is five minutes. Ten years ago, it used to be 12 minutes” (Plumridge). This is proving that the internet growing in popularity among those doing research and many authors has created a problem with the rate of many people’s attention span. This shows that Carr is not the only one who has done their research on the topic of attention span. So that then moves us on to the topic of how people do not learn as much because they do not take the time to research and analyze the books within a library or even a textbook, this is because internet access is so much