The Influence of Google and the Technology
Through history, society always has a new tool that makes an important and noticeable impact on their lives. Also, Broke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld point out in their article “The Influencing Machines” that throughout history the new medium has always been feared as making people in the future stupid and unable to think for themselves. In additional, Nicholas Carr in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” explains the media and the internet changes how people process information. For example, people surface a lot of information about many things, but they do not surface for a deep information about anything (315). These ideas bring three important thoughts which are: the brain has changed by the …show more content…
As an illustration, Carr says he feels his brain is changing because now is hard to focus on long piece of information, but before a long reading was enjoyable and natural hobby that he could do without he felt difficult and tedious to finish or concentrate what he was reading (314). To put another example of how the brain has been affected, Gladstone and Neufeld note the internet can cause users to narrow their experiences and interacts with only like –minded people- since they might choose with who they want to talk, share, and make part pf their lives. Users can select what they want to see. Also, they explain how everybody can have accept to the internet and post whatever thought they have, and sometimes those ideas have followers who suppose (332). As the matter of fact, because the brain is plastic changeable, people can change their mental abilities (Carr 319). Also, many people are losing their abilities for deep reading, and they said that they are having inability to really read. They are only skimming for the main idea (Carr 316-317). As well as, both articles observe the internet and media have changed how people process information since they surf for a lot distant information but not deep about those …show more content…
Carr relates on his article that medium brings not only news and entertainment to people, but also it is changing how they think and process the information. Gladstone and Neufeld agree about the brain has been changed through history, but they point out variety prime progress that have been done (Gladstone and Neufeld 334). Carr writes a great example of how the brain can change. In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche got a typewriter. Using it was hard and painful because he did not have a good vision. He had to force his eyes, so he could look at the page where he was writing. After a while of writing in the typewriter, he memorized the keywords. Therefore, Nietzsche could use it without look at (318-319). In 1936, the radio was a scaring tools for children because they had bad dreams about stories that they listened to. Now, the radio is one fantastic tool which everyone use. In a similar way happens with the TV and books that first were listing negative results, and now they are a useful tools for the society (Gladstone and Neufeld 336). Like Google founders who are Brin and Page said people would be better off with more efficient artificial brains (Carr 325). In 19th Century factory workers were made to work as efficient machine like systems, and that shows Google is trying to systematize everything (Carr
Through history, society always has a new tool that makes an important and noticeable impact on their lives. Also, Broke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld point out in their article “The Influencing Machines” that throughout history the new medium has always been feared as making people in the future stupid and unable to think for themselves. In additional, Nicholas Carr in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” explains the media and the internet changes how people process information. For example, people surface a lot of information about many things, but they do not surface for a deep information about anything (315). These ideas bring three important thoughts which are: the brain has changed by the …show more content…
As an illustration, Carr says he feels his brain is changing because now is hard to focus on long piece of information, but before a long reading was enjoyable and natural hobby that he could do without he felt difficult and tedious to finish or concentrate what he was reading (314). To put another example of how the brain has been affected, Gladstone and Neufeld note the internet can cause users to narrow their experiences and interacts with only like –minded people- since they might choose with who they want to talk, share, and make part pf their lives. Users can select what they want to see. Also, they explain how everybody can have accept to the internet and post whatever thought they have, and sometimes those ideas have followers who suppose (332). As the matter of fact, because the brain is plastic changeable, people can change their mental abilities (Carr 319). Also, many people are losing their abilities for deep reading, and they said that they are having inability to really read. They are only skimming for the main idea (Carr 316-317). As well as, both articles observe the internet and media have changed how people process information since they surf for a lot distant information but not deep about those …show more content…
Carr relates on his article that medium brings not only news and entertainment to people, but also it is changing how they think and process the information. Gladstone and Neufeld agree about the brain has been changed through history, but they point out variety prime progress that have been done (Gladstone and Neufeld 334). Carr writes a great example of how the brain can change. In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche got a typewriter. Using it was hard and painful because he did not have a good vision. He had to force his eyes, so he could look at the page where he was writing. After a while of writing in the typewriter, he memorized the keywords. Therefore, Nietzsche could use it without look at (318-319). In 1936, the radio was a scaring tools for children because they had bad dreams about stories that they listened to. Now, the radio is one fantastic tool which everyone use. In a similar way happens with the TV and books that first were listing negative results, and now they are a useful tools for the society (Gladstone and Neufeld 336). Like Google founders who are Brin and Page said people would be better off with more efficient artificial brains (Carr 325). In 19th Century factory workers were made to work as efficient machine like systems, and that shows Google is trying to systematize everything (Carr