Nicholas Carr discusses the effects of the use of technology in his essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” First, he points out how constant technology use causes the mind to change. In discussing his mind, Carr states how it’s “changing. [He’s] not thinking the way [he] used to think” (315). In other words, Carr believes that the prolonged hours spent on the Internet correlates with his loss of concentration after reading a few pages of an article or a novel. Moreover, Carr explicates how the mind has adapted to operate just like the Internet due to the immediate access of information. He further describes the plasticity of the brain by elucidating that “nerve cells routinely break old connections and form new ones” (319). Carr’s point is that
