Analysis Of Is Google Making USupid? By Nicholas Carr

"Computers will overtake humans with artificial intelligence at some (point) within the next 100 years. When that happens, we need to make sure the computers have goals aligned with ours." (Stephen Hawking) While computers are becoming increasingly more popular they are not taking over the world just yet, but they are changing the way in which the world operates and more importantly the way humans think. Computers are everything to humans they contain all their vital information, from pictures to passwords, or even government secrets, but what is the impact they are making in our mind? More specifically, how have we changed since we have begun using them? In Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr, he claims that since he has begun to use the internet, he has lost focus when deep reading and claims that the internet has changed the way he thinks. His argument is highly critical of the internet, and he uses research to back up his facts, writing that spending a lot of time online has hindered his focus and that pre-internet, he was able to naturally dive into a lengthy article or essay. Carr uses multiple studies to back up his arguments, such as the …show more content…
Carr says that technology is impacting his focus in a negative way. Technology actually enables students to get to the meat of the arguments and sift through parts that they would need in their analysis of the text. Carr should also realize that when people use the internet they don't always need the long expert to get what they want, but instead a short snippet, and for this, the web is a godsend. The web is a powerful tool and lets humans get back to their roots in communication, this being a conversational setting. Technology has changed human cognition, but in doing so it has benefited society, enhancing our reading capabilities, therefore changing academia