Is Google Making USupid Analysis

Is Google, the internet, and technology making us as a society stupid? This is a hard question to answer yes or no to. Nicolas Carr answers “My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” It’s Agreeable that Google, the internet, and technology are not necessarily making us stupid, rather changing our thought patterns and processes. So much information is available with the click of a button, but just because people have access to billions or articles, media, and online books doesn’t mean we take it all in. Humans think differently when using the internet.
In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Carr has different opinions on the matter. Carr states that he has noticed a change in
his reading ethic, ever since he started to heavily use the internet. One thing he has noticed is that when he is reading long articles he starts to get disengaged after the first couple pages. He loses he train of focus and wants to do other things. This happens to many people in today’s world. It seems that not many people can finish a long article on the web; people click skim though the article or read a couple pages and click off. The reason being that the internet is a distracting place. Most every webpage has some sort of advertisement or hyperlinks to other articles. Putting these things on websites makes it difficult for people to keep focus on the article they are reading. Google is a prime example of this. When someone googles a question, millions of results come up which can cause people to read as many as they possibly can. People skim through multiple pages looking for different answers, probably not fully reading or understanding each article. There is no way to make sure all this information is accurate. With the millions of search results there are millions of different answers or opinions. Google also records every search result into a artificial intelligence database, so Google can learn how to bring up desired information faster. This may be considered incredibly useful, but in reality this is taking away our critical thinking ability. Google should be a helpful recourse, but not give someone all the answers in one place. That is too easy, where is the challenge of using the brain?
Almost every device is connected to the internet today.
We are so reliant on the internet to deliver us basically everything. It’s rare that a household wont have WI-FI. As a society we rely too much the internet. This causes people to go out in the world less. Why go see a movie in a theater when its available to stream right in the living room. We are becoming lazy, this is also a cause of depression. The internet is also changing the way people think, as well as their cognitive thinking process. Our generation does not have as much advanced thinking skills as the generation before us. When a question is asked, or when research is being conducted; people use search engines to find all of the information as quickly as possible. This creates a mindset that the internet will do all of the thinking for a person. Essentially making the person lazy, and have the mindset that they can just look everything up online. This type of thinking is not productive, before the internet; when books were used as the main source of information, the person must read the book to find the desired information, which intern, could result in learning more information. More opportunities for deep thought are presented, therefore the person might understand and actually take in the information. With the internet people have the easy way out, they can look up answers for assignments or try and cheat off someone else’s essay. People are lazy, and the internet helps them become even lazier. The internet
is turning people’s minds to mush, why would they look for an answer in a book, when it could take 5 seconds to google. Deep thinking may no longer be a thing because the internet can do it for someone.
Billout states “The idea is that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines.” The internet is doing just that; people are becoming wired to work like computers.
The human brain is already a type of computer, but according to Bill out’s opinion “The Human brain is an outdated computer” now that google has artificial intelligence, humans will start to rely on the internet for all of their information and knowledge. We have become reliant on technology to teach us, and even think for us. Eventually the thinking process will be eliminated because humans will just google it. The biggest part of being human is our intelligence. The internet is effecting just that. We now rely so much on computers and other electronic devices to think for us. What happened to the good old days where people would read long books and appreciate deep conversations? In public people are always on the internet on their phones or tablets. On social media or taking funny pictures. Not paying attention to the world around them. The internet sucks people in and makes it difficult to get off. It’s sad that people would sit on their phone all day, when they could be enjoying life. It will be interesting to see how this changes the way people
are.

Google, the internet, and technology making us as a society think differently; possibly even become a shallower person. The internet is something that we all must adapt to and we must understand it. We cannot let it suck us in and take advantage of our thinking processes. We must think for ourselves. Google is a helpful tool, but if used to much a person will become dependent. Nobody knows what the future holds for Google and the internet, it might help us; or it will truly turn us into zombie-like human beings with no natural thought process. People need to lean how to balance the use of the internet, using it as a helpful recourse, but not rely on it. If society continues down this path, people will just be like computers.