Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr “Is Google Making Us Stupid” suggest through cause and effect and anecdotes that the internet is making the human brain less effective. The author has a strong opinion that technologies such as the internet are negative for the brain capacity. He uses cause and effect to convey the idea that the internet is altering our abilities in a way that we can no longer master the intellectual skills that we used to control. When the author explains how different his reading became with the use of internet he expresses, “And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation” (Carr 1). By using cause and effect he is proving the audience that surfing on the net will change your capacity to read, …show more content…
Later on, the author brings in support Bruce Friedman view to add power to his argument, Friedman exclaims, “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print” (Carr 2). Once again, the author uses cause and effect to compare with another individual to further asset his main idea. Because the internet also caused Friedman to lose his reading skills and the concentration that he used to have, in that way he brings awareness to the reader who is now conscious that these effects can happen to a variety of people, and convince them that internet is making the human brain less effective. Furthermore, the author uses an anecdote to support his main point. By doing so he is providing the audience evidence that the internet is, in fact, causing harm to the human brain and its capacity. When the author mentions the different individuals who had suffers from intellectual difficulties due to the net he expresses the anecdote of Scott Karp, “Scott Karp who writes a blog about online media, recently confessed that he has stopped reading books altogether” (Carr