Becoming Mindless Computers

Improved Essays
Tana'j Gross
Scott Branks del Llano
English 1301
15 October 2017
Humans becoming mindless computers "Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr. Nicholas Carr is a writer and journalist. In this article he explains that the internet is doing more damage to the human brain than helping it. Carr has a few questions about what the internet really does to the human brain. Also, he wants to know is google really making us stupid and unable to process information the right way. This question can have everyone thinking he may have a point something we haven't even came to the realization to think about. I do believe the internet is making us mindless computers just like Carr stated. I will start off by explaining when Carr informs us that the brain is malleable. Also, the internet might be shaping it by rewiring the brains network. For example, he explains that neurons can be changed depending on the shape and how things are done. " He explains he feels that something or someone has been tinkering with his brain, remapping the neural circuitry reprogramming the memory". The media shapes the thoughts that flow in the human being mind. The internet is distracting us from processing information correctly I agree. Basically, we are becoming mindless computers with the use of so much searching on the internet. In other words, we start to think just like the computers with researching information from them. For example, Carr mentions " That’s the essence of Kubrick's dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our intelligence that flatters into artificial intelligence. The main point is that the internet has actually affected how people process information. He begins to illustrate this point also by using a scene from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A space odyssey where HAL, the super computer, is being disassembled by the man the machine nearly (purposefully) killed1. Furthermore, Carr explains that he is not thinking the
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I also do feel that when I am researching things on the internet for a long period of time I feel its draining, and I feel that I am become the computer. I do get distracted easily when reading online, because after two or more pages I lose focus on everything I done read. It's so much to process at one time. I agree with him saying by spending so much time on the internet we will become quick thinkers. I agree with that because as soon as I research something I am looking for an answer to I think the way the internet gives me the answer. Instead of having my own thought about the possible answer. I also get so caught up in thinking how the internet does by social media such as Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and also snapchat. I know that Facebook does experiments on human beings so they can really have control of our emotions. For example, just say if Facebook wants to put up all happy stuff for a whole day because they want everyone to be happy most likely that will be the case. Vice versa if they take down all the happy stuff and put sad or mad stuff mostly likely everyone will feel angry and upset. I also agree with Carr when he says that the clock and typewriter changed our thinking back then. When Carr stated the fact of how the clock made a huge impact on how we go about our day, when we eat, sleep, and work and

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