'Is Google Making USupid?' By Nicholas Carr

Throughout the article titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” the author Nicholas Carr references the fact that he has is very experienced with the internet as it has been a key part of his life in the past decade and has added to the web's massive databases. He also talks about how, before the internet was super popular, people had to learn to read the old-fashioned way and open up a book. Throughout the article, Carr regularly references many other reliable sources such as Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University yet, all of these sources state their own opinions on whether they believe that Google has affected people’s ability to comprehend what they are reading. To further this topic Carr touches on the most complex organ in the body, the brain, and how it is constantly changing, but also how it works when people are trying to skim what they are looking at instead of actually reading it. One way that Carr tells readers that Google has affected the memory is the style of reading people do on the internet. He shows readers that his memory has been …show more content…
He continues to convey these points by relating the article details back to real life experiences and also other life experiences that he has gone through. One of those other life experiences being the movie A Space Odyssey, he uses this movie to explain how technology is nice and all but sometimes it can backfire severely. Carr then backs up his opinions by asking experts in their fields (mostly medical) how they feel about this issue and if they think it’s true or not. He then brings up the fact that the brain is constantly changing and developing throughout our lives. All in all, throughout the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr explains why he and others believes that Google is making us