Analysis Of 'Is Google Making USupid?'

Need information for a research paper? Help with homework? Directions? Where do you find this information? Simple almost anyone would just turn to the Internet. Modern day it is no surprise how heavy we rely on the internet for help. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, by Nicholas Carr, he explores the idea that because of reliance on Google or more specifically the internet our thinking patterns are no longer as in depth or have the capacity as they once did. In the article Carr suggests that because of how we now find information on the internet and how short it is we no longer have the capability for long articles, we now lack concentration when reading long pieces of writing. Despite claims that the internet has affected our thinking abilities, the …show more content…
He furthers the idea explaining that because of how quickly information is obtained nowadays it has shaped our process of thought, and not for the better. Carr suggests that due to text messaging and the internet we are now reading more than we did in the 1970s or 1980s but it is a different kind of reading, and thus we have developed a different kind of thinking. He explains that because of the internet and how short and concise the information we now read the ability to interpret a text and make a mental connection while reading is now disengaged.
Carr refutes Googles claim that “we’d all be better off if our brains were supplemented,or even replaced, by and artificial intelligence.” He claims that an artificial intelligence is unsettling, and suggests that intelligence is nothing more than a mechanical process. Ending the article Carr touches on the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy leaving us with the idea “as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial