Is Google Making USupid Summary

Technology over the years has significantly improved our way of life. In most aspects, it has helped us, but some people believe it is beginning to make us unintelligent. Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” tells us numerous reasons as to how google is making us stupid. Carr first explains how his focusing abilities were shortened. It had shortened so heavily that he couldn’t become fully immersed in books. In the beginning, Carr tells us about how we have benefitted from the internets unlimited information. Shortly after, Carr switches sides on his opinion about the internet and how it has reformed our brains thinking capabilities. He talks about how the internet has affected our attention span, which has also started to affect our reading and writing abilities. He says that it is affecting us this way because of the way the internet provides us information. In the end, Carr tells us that he is scared that the internet is slowly becoming more and more intelligent than humans are. …show more content…
The more people rely on the internet, the less we will have to do. Although the internet is a great place to learn about specific topics, events, history, and many more things, it has a negative effect on our brains developmental process. I have a first-hand experience with an issue like this with my nephew. My sister would always let him use her tablet to play games even as a young kid, but she soon realized he was falling behind the learning curve. Once she took away the tablet, he began to pay more attention to people around him and what they were saying. He slowly started to talk and learn until finally he caught back up with the kids in his class. He now has excelled higher than anyone else in his class, also he hasn’t been allowed to use the tablet