Collin Janawsky
Mr. Mahany
Comp I
October 6, 2015
Explanatory Synthesis
In both essays, “Is Google making us stupid” and “The influencing machines”, technology is being questioned whether it is changing us or not. In the essay, “is Google making us stupid”
Carr explains that Google is for the worst. In the essay, “The influencing machines” Gladstone explains how much of a great impact that technology has on our society. She also explains how media has both a good and bad effect on the society in which we live today. In the other essay
Carr brings up an opinion of Richard Foreman, a playwright, that we will become “pancake people –spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information”. Both writers have very different …show more content…
Studies have suggested that reading information on the internet can make a person experience different cognitive abilities. Gladstone goes on to explain the media is the same as it ever was. With the technology it has just developed more over time. The media is still the same by sharing factual information, subjective or objective analysis and truth spoken to power. Even though both Gladstone and Carr show a harsh opinion on technology, Carr doesn’t necessarily think all technology is bad.
Carr goes on to explain that some of the changes he is seeing are “negative changes”. He explains that the internet helps people with the creative process of research rather than the other aspects of research. In the beginning and middle of the twentieth century, scientist would have to do most of their mathematical task on paper and would take up the majority of their research when doing research. Carr explains how some technology has helped us, explaining how the calculator and computer have helped scientist majorly because it “freed their minds to more deeply contemplate the creative aspects of discovery”. The internet has proved its power since …show more content…
Today we have all these different gadgets at our hands to where we can socialize through the media in the touch of a finger. By Carr’s means, technology has got to the point where everyone has a gadget to where they can socialize through it immediately rather than socializing in person. It seems as if technology is slowly taking over the way we communicate and see things. Gladstone expresses her outlook on technology by referring to the media and journalism. Gladstone explains throughout her essay how “mostly the media wants to be popular”. She explains how the news only puts out stories that the public want to hear or that would intrigue the audience listening. When it comes to wartime, Gladstone explains how a journalist will stretch the story to appear to the audience to help gain ratings. Technology has affected the media somewhat by worrying more about the viewers and the workplace rather than the information being presented. Gladstone also explains how the media likes to put out bogus statistics, and where some of these companies are so powerful nothing can really be done to prevent it or stop
Mr. Mahany
Comp I
October 6, 2015
Explanatory Synthesis
In both essays, “Is Google making us stupid” and “The influencing machines”, technology is being questioned whether it is changing us or not. In the essay, “is Google making us stupid”
Carr explains that Google is for the worst. In the essay, “The influencing machines” Gladstone explains how much of a great impact that technology has on our society. She also explains how media has both a good and bad effect on the society in which we live today. In the other essay
Carr brings up an opinion of Richard Foreman, a playwright, that we will become “pancake people –spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information”. Both writers have very different …show more content…
Studies have suggested that reading information on the internet can make a person experience different cognitive abilities. Gladstone goes on to explain the media is the same as it ever was. With the technology it has just developed more over time. The media is still the same by sharing factual information, subjective or objective analysis and truth spoken to power. Even though both Gladstone and Carr show a harsh opinion on technology, Carr doesn’t necessarily think all technology is bad.
Carr goes on to explain that some of the changes he is seeing are “negative changes”. He explains that the internet helps people with the creative process of research rather than the other aspects of research. In the beginning and middle of the twentieth century, scientist would have to do most of their mathematical task on paper and would take up the majority of their research when doing research. Carr explains how some technology has helped us, explaining how the calculator and computer have helped scientist majorly because it “freed their minds to more deeply contemplate the creative aspects of discovery”. The internet has proved its power since …show more content…
Today we have all these different gadgets at our hands to where we can socialize through the media in the touch of a finger. By Carr’s means, technology has got to the point where everyone has a gadget to where they can socialize through it immediately rather than socializing in person. It seems as if technology is slowly taking over the way we communicate and see things. Gladstone expresses her outlook on technology by referring to the media and journalism. Gladstone explains throughout her essay how “mostly the media wants to be popular”. She explains how the news only puts out stories that the public want to hear or that would intrigue the audience listening. When it comes to wartime, Gladstone explains how a journalist will stretch the story to appear to the audience to help gain ratings. Technology has affected the media somewhat by worrying more about the viewers and the workplace rather than the information being presented. Gladstone also explains how the media likes to put out bogus statistics, and where some of these companies are so powerful nothing can really be done to prevent it or stop