Nicholas G. Carr was born in 1959, and is the author of, 2011 General Non-fiction Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brain’s. He is also the author of the highly debated article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” published in July of 2008. This article is about how he noticed that he had a shorter attention span and could not focus on long pieces of writing. He describes the neurological consequences of the internet, and how it is shaping how we read. When we skim articles we do not have a meaningful and memorable experience, we are simply extracting the main points from the text.
The article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” written by Nicholas Carr, is a commentary posing the question: is Google making us stupid? …show more content…
The author says, “Experiments demonstrate that readers of ideograms, such as chinese, develop mental circuitry for reading that is very different from the circuitry found in those of us whose written language employs an alphabet” (Carr). I think that this makes sense because readers of ideograms interpret text completely different. Reading in ideograms is a whole other type of interpretation in the brain. Friedrich Nietzsche was a writer whose vision was failing and focusing on the page became exhausting, and commonly brought on crushing headaches. In the late 1800’s, he bought a typewriter, mastered touch-typing, and was soon enough able to type with his eyes closed. This newfound writing tool enabled him to write again. The typewriter actually had an affect on his style of writing. His already tight prose had become even tighter. Nietzsche later commented, “our equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts” (Carr). Many times when I begin to writing I have to force myself to just start typing, and my thoughts flow out onto the
The article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” written by Nicholas Carr, is a commentary posing the question: is Google making us stupid? …show more content…
The author says, “Experiments demonstrate that readers of ideograms, such as chinese, develop mental circuitry for reading that is very different from the circuitry found in those of us whose written language employs an alphabet” (Carr). I think that this makes sense because readers of ideograms interpret text completely different. Reading in ideograms is a whole other type of interpretation in the brain. Friedrich Nietzsche was a writer whose vision was failing and focusing on the page became exhausting, and commonly brought on crushing headaches. In the late 1800’s, he bought a typewriter, mastered touch-typing, and was soon enough able to type with his eyes closed. This newfound writing tool enabled him to write again. The typewriter actually had an affect on his style of writing. His already tight prose had become even tighter. Nietzsche later commented, “our equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts” (Carr). Many times when I begin to writing I have to force myself to just start typing, and my thoughts flow out onto the