Nicholas Carr's 'Is Google Making USupid'

In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” published in 2008 by Atlantic Media Company, allows individuals to perceive differently about the Internet. The author, Nicholas Carr, explains that once he was granted access to the web, his concentration and contemplation is degrading. He mentions that his friends and acquaintances are also having similar experiences and that the anecdotes and experiments for helping this disease rarely prove as much. In my opinion, I would have to agree on his stance because I also believe that the Internet has weakened our mind and potential for greatness. Carr has experienced the effects of searching and surfing online for more than a decade, and his deep reading becomes a struggle. He blames technology for becoming a universal medium in which manipulates people in a way that decreases their quality of their mind. They have yet to await the long-term experiment that provides us a definite reasoning as to how the Internet affects perception. Scholars from University College London believe that this is what is to become of the future of …show more content…
In the end, the web is just a tool; how you use will determine if it has a positive or negative outcome. People are used to living in a deterministic world where they think that the human choices and decisions have sufficient causes. The process of technology being more reliable and iterative is being feared by the creator themselves. Cyber-security expert, Colin Williams, explained how technology has always reshaped society and that “we tell ourselves stories to try to understand why and how.” Nowadays, we depend more on technology than we do with our brain. Although the internet has allowed us to be more efficient and productive, it limits our capability to expand our minds. With correct motives, we must take advantage of the gifts we created to strive for more