Is the media and internet slowly wearing away the knowledge that we had making us totally dependable on the objects put in front of us, or could computers and media be aiding us for the better? Nicholas Carr and Clive Thompson put these broad topics into perspective by forming different opinions going in different directions. One suggesting that the internet is making us smarter, developing our intellect and guiding us in the right direction to a more successful future? The other saying that we are losing our ability to think and learn on an efficient level as we use to.
In the articles, "Is Google Making us Stupid", by Nicholas Carr, and "Smarter than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better", by Clive Thompson both …show more content…
Or have they become so technologically advanced and in return is turning into something else that is helping us in an effective and positive way. Clive Thompson is hanging on the idea that media and technology are not really causing us to lose any intelligence that we have developed, it's only making us smarter by learning how to work with machines-- and let the advances that are happening push us forward in a explicit direction. This thought then helped Thompson theorize and pose the question, "What would happen if, instead of competing against one another, humans and computers collaborated?" (Thompson 343). This is Thompson's primary point of his entire article suggesting that working with technology and the internet is better than working against it, "That way he, theorized, each might benefit from the other's peculiar power," (Thompson 343). Man and machine link up to become the Centaur-- a hybrid that is half human and half horse. Thompson however is not suggesting that we become half robot, but if we just took the advances of technology and pair it with natural human intelligence, it could form something that could turn out to be more valuable in the future. Back on the topic of chess, Thompson supports his statement by talking discussing Crampton and Stephen, amatuer chess players, and how they used the Centaur method to their advantage in a chess game. The duo won their chess match because they knew how to collaborate with computers, "They knew when to rely on human smarts and when to rely on machine's advances," using each-- that posses different strengths results in a better and more successful outcome (Thompson 345). Finally, coming to the conclusion that neither the best chess player in the world is better at chess, nor the most advanced computer software-- it's both of them working
In the articles, "Is Google Making us Stupid", by Nicholas Carr, and "Smarter than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better", by Clive Thompson both …show more content…
Or have they become so technologically advanced and in return is turning into something else that is helping us in an effective and positive way. Clive Thompson is hanging on the idea that media and technology are not really causing us to lose any intelligence that we have developed, it's only making us smarter by learning how to work with machines-- and let the advances that are happening push us forward in a explicit direction. This thought then helped Thompson theorize and pose the question, "What would happen if, instead of competing against one another, humans and computers collaborated?" (Thompson 343). This is Thompson's primary point of his entire article suggesting that working with technology and the internet is better than working against it, "That way he, theorized, each might benefit from the other's peculiar power," (Thompson 343). Man and machine link up to become the Centaur-- a hybrid that is half human and half horse. Thompson however is not suggesting that we become half robot, but if we just took the advances of technology and pair it with natural human intelligence, it could form something that could turn out to be more valuable in the future. Back on the topic of chess, Thompson supports his statement by talking discussing Crampton and Stephen, amatuer chess players, and how they used the Centaur method to their advantage in a chess game. The duo won their chess match because they knew how to collaborate with computers, "They knew when to rely on human smarts and when to rely on machine's advances," using each-- that posses different strengths results in a better and more successful outcome (Thompson 345). Finally, coming to the conclusion that neither the best chess player in the world is better at chess, nor the most advanced computer software-- it's both of them working