Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

Title “ The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book…we make our own associations, draw our own references and analogies, foster our own ideas.” Nicholas Carr concludes his article “ Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” by stressing the significance in reading actual books rather than reading on an LCD screen. Based on personal experience, I find a certain comfort from reading a novel; nevertheless, what’s precious is the content within as it relates to the reader, not the form in which it comes in. …show more content…
I fail to recognize Carr’s emphasis on the difference between “ a sequence of printed pages” and a sequence of online text because “what “ I am reading is definitely more important than “ how” I am reading it. Being an individual diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactive disorder, keeping concentration on the written words in front of me is already quite a challenge at times. While in high school, the majority of my groaning and complaining did not come from teachers assigning chapters to read, but instead, it stemmed from the fact that most of the books given to us were monotonous and futile. In addition, focusing on one thing at a time was, and still is, a daily struggle, so it was nearly impossible for me to read fluently enough to answer the