Evaluating “Is Google Making Us Stupid” The article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” is a true yet antagonistic. It consists of valid points that are agreeable to most but is overplayed with the idea that the internet is to blame for all the changes in reading and information gathering. There are points in the article where the author disproves one of their ideas, displays irony, and creates hysteria about Google.
The author, Nicholas Carr, focusses on writing technology related articles and books. Along with this, he writes for multiple periodicals. His works include “The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google”,” Does IT Matter?”, and “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”. All of these books focus on the ideas …show more content…
The author compares HAL to Google’s plans to create an artificial intelligence machine. However, HAL is from a theatrical source and is a character in a film. HAL was also the antagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Google’s plans to build an AI machine is literal and unlike HAL, Google’s AI is hoped to be made to assist much like Siri found on Apple devices. With this in mind, the author’s point of how and AI with a capability reminiscent of HAL doesn’t fit with the idea brought about by Google due to the literal since of a machine with a designated task to assist.
Whilst describing online articles, the author notes how online article sites are littered with advertisements. This notation can be found as ironic considering that this is an online article. Like many online articles, this one is filled with multiple adverts, most of them animated. However, this comment is quite literal. He also notes that these advertisements divert the reader’s attention, causing them to lose their concentration on the article. This idea plays into the irony of his statement, because as said before, the very website of this article is bombarded with …show more content…
He does so by referencing the beginning of the article and analyzes it to fit in with the information throughout the body of the article. Carr’s analyzation of the beginning fits perfectly by deconstructing to the idea of the article for the reader, allowing for a brief summary of everything covered and how we can compare the advancement of technology and the idea of AI to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. He then concludes by stating “…as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.”, which firmly ends his comparison, creating another success in his article.
Overall, Carr’s article is truthful to the points he hints to make in the title and backs up said ideas with examples and documentation from others. However, his article also contains some flaws that affect the direction of the piece. These instances of flaws compared to the length of the article are few and far between, allowing for the reader to enjoy the piece in its entirety without distraction. To summarize, Carr has achieved in his goal to describe to the reader how the internet is changing reading and achieves it with few flaws
The author, Nicholas Carr, focusses on writing technology related articles and books. Along with this, he writes for multiple periodicals. His works include “The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google”,” Does IT Matter?”, and “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”. All of these books focus on the ideas …show more content…
The author compares HAL to Google’s plans to create an artificial intelligence machine. However, HAL is from a theatrical source and is a character in a film. HAL was also the antagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Google’s plans to build an AI machine is literal and unlike HAL, Google’s AI is hoped to be made to assist much like Siri found on Apple devices. With this in mind, the author’s point of how and AI with a capability reminiscent of HAL doesn’t fit with the idea brought about by Google due to the literal since of a machine with a designated task to assist.
Whilst describing online articles, the author notes how online article sites are littered with advertisements. This notation can be found as ironic considering that this is an online article. Like many online articles, this one is filled with multiple adverts, most of them animated. However, this comment is quite literal. He also notes that these advertisements divert the reader’s attention, causing them to lose their concentration on the article. This idea plays into the irony of his statement, because as said before, the very website of this article is bombarded with …show more content…
He does so by referencing the beginning of the article and analyzes it to fit in with the information throughout the body of the article. Carr’s analyzation of the beginning fits perfectly by deconstructing to the idea of the article for the reader, allowing for a brief summary of everything covered and how we can compare the advancement of technology and the idea of AI to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. He then concludes by stating “…as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.”, which firmly ends his comparison, creating another success in his article.
Overall, Carr’s article is truthful to the points he hints to make in the title and backs up said ideas with examples and documentation from others. However, his article also contains some flaws that affect the direction of the piece. These instances of flaws compared to the length of the article are few and far between, allowing for the reader to enjoy the piece in its entirety without distraction. To summarize, Carr has achieved in his goal to describe to the reader how the internet is changing reading and achieves it with few flaws