Does The Internet Make You Dumber By Nicholas Carr Summary

We are living in the time that three-year old boys play tablets, seventy-year old women use laptops, teenagers and adults cannot keep their hands off mobile phones. The sad truth is, technologies were and are being used widely, and along with it, the internet became an important part in our daily lives. Too much of anything is bad. Too much of utilizing the internet is not good, too. Having recognized this issue, Nicholas Carr wrote an article “Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” to forewarn the users of adverse threats of the internet on humans’ brains: obtuseness, distraction and short-term memory. He provides ample studies and comparative experiments to prove these negative impacts. For people who spend much time on working with the internet, Carr explains that humans’ brains tend to get …show more content…
However, Carr underestimates the massive source of knowledge that the internet has brought to people, overlooks humans’ responsibilities in using and controlling the internet and he also misses some internet’s advantages over printed books. This article, sad to say, has still not persuasively indicated a harm of the …show more content…
In this way, he just adds and adds another proof dryly with no emotion. For instance, “In an article published in Science last year” (217) and he states one evidence, then “In one experiment conducted at Cornell University” (217) and he states another evidence, continuously, “In another experiment, recently conducted at Stanford University 's Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab” (218) and he keeps going. Throughout this article, he uses neutral tone and neutral language. Maybe this is a style of expository essay, but it is quite boring when