Nicholas Carr Skepticism

Skepticism have always been there when technologies were newly developed along with new approaches to other methodologies. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Carr conveys this idea by the examples of Socrates and his resist of adopting alphabet and Squarciafico and his resist of the printing press (Carr, p.564). Nonetheless, are Carr’s skeptical attitude based on the truth? Moreover, in such development of the communication system, is it able to supersede the negative effects with positive ones? Socrates, response to the adoption of the alphabet, was particularly worried about three things. His worries included: that the written knowledge would cause to cease human memory, that writing knowledge on a substance would break …show more content…
He argues that using technologies, which boost mental capacities, will undeniably make the brains to process information as those current technologies are doing. In other words, people will eventually become distracted while they take in new knowledge, as the internet is embedded features of distractions with overabundance of information such as links, pictures, and advertisements. These features are holding people back from concentrating on texts also preventing them from making a deep thoughts related to the text that they are reading. How people are supposed to deeply envisage the points of the text if they don’t read it thoroughly and connect the text to their thoughts? Carr portrays that it is, “in the quiet spaces… undistracted reading of a book… foster our own ideas. Deep reading... is indistinguishable from deep thinking” (Carr, p.564). In Carr’s article, he undoubtedly argues that he doesn’t believe that attaining wisdom cannot be achieved using the internet and, furthermore, using internet consistently will make people become not able to read text through other