In ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’, Nicholas Carr displays his views on how technological advances have brought great advancements and success to the world, however, he also argues how such advancements have become detrimental to the mindset of mankind. The fact that it has such long explanation probably helped validate his point to many readers, including me. While reading the article, I paused after every two pages or so of text to take a break, which mirrors Carr’s own experiences of reading long texts and “dragging my wayward brain back to the text” (Carr). While Carr attempts- through ethos, pathos and logos- to convince readers the validity of his argument that due to Google and the rise of digital texts people are no longer able to
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The way Carr presents his anecdotes causes the reader to wonder what could have possibly changed so much to change a “voracious book reader” (Carr) into someone who does not read books at all. Karp suggests that his lack of desire to read may have occurred because the way he thinks has changed, which is central to Carr’s argument. Carr uses pathos to evoke various feelings of incredulity at the state of the human mind in the present time and the current state of people’s lack of ability to read long texts when compared to previous years. It would be one thing to use examples that show that the common man or woman is unable to read texts of long length, but it is quite more convincing when the examples used to demonstrate that people of scholarly background are no longer able to read lengthy texts for extended periods of time, even if at one point in their lifetime they had. By evoking such feelings repeatedly, Carr attempts to persuade the reader that his argument is …show more content…
He shows how the invention of the clock changed the way that people lived in that they “stopped listening to our [their] senses and started obeying the clock” (Carr). For example, previous to the invention of the clock, people would eat when they were hungry and wake up when the sun came up, but after the invention of clocks, people had set times on when to eat and wake up. Instead of basing when they ate or slept or performed other daily activities on when they body naturally and instinctively indicated to them that it was time to do so, people began to form habits based on the clock. He also shows how it is possible for human nature to change because of an invention through the example of how the Industrial Revolution made factory workers follow precise instructions with little room for creativity, and made people into “little more than automatons, but the factory’s productivity soared” (Carr). Likewise in this current age, the Internet has caused the “efficient and automated” (Carr) collection of information to preside over how we obtain our information. Since historical examples are especially convincing, in that they show how something has already happened in history before, and Carr uses multiple historical examples, the logos in his article is used very resourcefully and would help convince readers the validity of his
The way Carr presents his anecdotes causes the reader to wonder what could have possibly changed so much to change a “voracious book reader” (Carr) into someone who does not read books at all. Karp suggests that his lack of desire to read may have occurred because the way he thinks has changed, which is central to Carr’s argument. Carr uses pathos to evoke various feelings of incredulity at the state of the human mind in the present time and the current state of people’s lack of ability to read long texts when compared to previous years. It would be one thing to use examples that show that the common man or woman is unable to read texts of long length, but it is quite more convincing when the examples used to demonstrate that people of scholarly background are no longer able to read lengthy texts for extended periods of time, even if at one point in their lifetime they had. By evoking such feelings repeatedly, Carr attempts to persuade the reader that his argument is …show more content…
He shows how the invention of the clock changed the way that people lived in that they “stopped listening to our [their] senses and started obeying the clock” (Carr). For example, previous to the invention of the clock, people would eat when they were hungry and wake up when the sun came up, but after the invention of clocks, people had set times on when to eat and wake up. Instead of basing when they ate or slept or performed other daily activities on when they body naturally and instinctively indicated to them that it was time to do so, people began to form habits based on the clock. He also shows how it is possible for human nature to change because of an invention through the example of how the Industrial Revolution made factory workers follow precise instructions with little room for creativity, and made people into “little more than automatons, but the factory’s productivity soared” (Carr). Likewise in this current age, the Internet has caused the “efficient and automated” (Carr) collection of information to preside over how we obtain our information. Since historical examples are especially convincing, in that they show how something has already happened in history before, and Carr uses multiple historical examples, the logos in his article is used very resourcefully and would help convince readers the validity of his