Do you believe google is making us stupid?
According to Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” as the internet becomes our main source of information it is affecting the way we read books and other long narratives, he also believes we are becoming more distracted. At the beginning of the essay Carr compares the way he feels to a scene from a film called “A Space Odyssey”; he states, “I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain” (313). One reason Carr is wrong is because many people believe using google in the proper way and using it when it is necessary can be quite beneficial, the internet helps us learn many things and it educates us in many ways. Yes, we may become distracted easily, but we shouldn’t underestimate the power of the internet.
To begin, in my opinion the internet has been a blessing to this society we …show more content…
Clive Thompson from the article “Smarter than You Think” states that “todays tools make it easier for us to find connections- between ideas, pictures, people, bits of news- that were previously invisible. Carr doesn’t mention this point in his article, as a society, cultural experiences are a part of who we are. How can something that gives us the opportunity to know what is going around us make us
According to Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” as the internet becomes our main source of information it is affecting the way we read books and other long narratives, he also believes we are becoming more distracted. At the beginning of the essay Carr compares the way he feels to a scene from a film called “A Space Odyssey”; he states, “I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain” (313). One reason Carr is wrong is because many people believe using google in the proper way and using it when it is necessary can be quite beneficial, the internet helps us learn many things and it educates us in many ways. Yes, we may become distracted easily, but we shouldn’t underestimate the power of the internet.
To begin, in my opinion the internet has been a blessing to this society we …show more content…
Clive Thompson from the article “Smarter than You Think” states that “todays tools make it easier for us to find connections- between ideas, pictures, people, bits of news- that were previously invisible. Carr doesn’t mention this point in his article, as a society, cultural experiences are a part of who we are. How can something that gives us the opportunity to know what is going around us make us