Internet Vs. Books Nicolas Carr suggest that the internet is making people “scattered and superficial thinkers.” Everyone takes the internet for granted; it gives each person access to search whatever one wants to when one wants to. With the internet being something no one can live without anymore, it has slowly made people less intelligent. In the short essay, Does the Internet Make You Smarter or Dumber, Nicholas Carr states his opinion that the internet is making us less concentrated on the subject we are researching. With everything popping up on the internet at random times, it is hard to keep our attention on the main subject that we are surfing the web for. Carr’s opinion is that reading a book makes you smarter while the internet
