Google-Making USupid

In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr says that his current troubles with concentrating while reading books and long articles might be because of investing a considerable measure of energy in the Internet. He believes that the customary internet utilization may have the impact of decreasing the limit with concentration and contemplation. Carr goes ahead and gives an exceptionally very much examined record of how contents on the web should make the browsing experience quick and beneficial. He portrays how the webs set up to profit and how our basic speculation abilities and capacities to focus are corrupted in the process. Carr encases his contention by depicting what we are losing in the move toward utilizing the web as our primary data source. Furthermore, he discusses the new thought of considering the brain as a computer, feels terrible for the loss of profound concentration, and the scholarly incitement it accommodates our brains. Carr’s theory of technology making us dumber …show more content…
Our minds operate like high speed data processing machines it is not only built into the workings of the internet, but into the networks reigning business model. The faster we surf the web, the more it collects information about us and to feed us more junk. We leave behind data as we go from link to link, the more for them the better. Companies want to encourage us to leisurely read, or slowly concentrated thinking. It is in their economic interests to drive us into distractions. Carr states “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful” (326). He means that they would be able to receive a bit of information from us without proper instructions, and knowledgeable when they are for the most part ignorant. Technology has altered or impaired its function of our memories. Our long-term memory has unlimited capacity and our short-term memory has a limited capacity, and that storage is very