Analysis Of All Can Be Lost By Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr's article “All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines” gives much insight through his eyes on the world we live in today and the constant reliance on computers. This article looks into some major technological advancements of today and how these technologies have affected the role people play, and tan individual's abilities. One major technology that is evaluated in Carr’s article is autopilot and the risk it and technologies like it can cause. As Carr points out Autopilot is used almost the entire time an airplane is being flown, which is a large responsibility. With this one question that he poses is what happens if the computers were to fail? Using the crash of February 12th 2009 in Buffalo, New York and the one of May 31st in the Atlantic Ocean he demonstrates exactly what can happen when the computers crash. Although the computers seem helpful and like a way to progress, Carr believes that they are hindering the individual's abilities. Statements from a National Transportation Safety Board that Carr uses in his article …show more content…
He states, “If computer's’ abilities are expanding so quickly and if people, by comparison, seem slow, clumsy, and error-prone, why not build immaculately self-contained systems that perform flawlessly without any human oversight or intervention?” This idea of humans being prone to error is one of the things Carr feels is leading this reliance on computers, but he points out that nothing is infallible.

Ultimately trough his article and the examples of the devastating crashes Carr points out the comfortably people have with technology and that they are no longer learning or progressing themselves which is one reason when they are forced to step into a task they they fail. From the situations like this Carr has concluded that, “They’ve become, it’s not much of an exaggeration to say, computer