Is Google Making Us Dumb Analysis
Is Google Making Us Dumb?
Nicholas Carr makes his point, Google is making us dumb, very clear. Carr noticed it himself. He realizes that his mind works differently when it comes to reading. Carr can’t focus on lengthy articles. After two or three lines his mind drifts away from the article and his mind tries to find something else to do. He says that this all happened from looking for information on the internet for over a decade, reading emails, scanning headlines, reading blog posts, watching videos, listening to podcasts, and tripping from link to link. Carr makes his claim even more true by doing his research. He interviews different people who notice the change in their behavior when it comes to reading or research. Carr asks people who career is based off reading. For example, he uses Scott Karp. Karp was a literature major in college he admits that he completely stopped reading books because he got all his information from the internet. He also talks to Bruce Friedman. Friedman says he lost the ability to absorb longish articles. Even in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche got a typewriter and noticed how his writing style was different. He would change words to make it shorter. Carr is waiting for neurological and physical experiments that explain the effects of internet use have on the brain. Carr noticed people skim through articles instead of actually reading them. He also learned that people actually do read a lot thanks to text messages. Carr also noticed …show more content…
He says after two lines he loses focus. That’s exactly me. To be honest, I had difficulty reading this article. I noticed that in high school when I started to stray away from paper articles to reading articles on the computer. Also, when he says his mind thinks of something else to do. That’s me because I start thinking of what I’m going to do after I finish my homework or after what I’m working on
Nicholas Carr makes his point, Google is making us dumb, very clear. Carr noticed it himself. He realizes that his mind works differently when it comes to reading. Carr can’t focus on lengthy articles. After two or three lines his mind drifts away from the article and his mind tries to find something else to do. He says that this all happened from looking for information on the internet for over a decade, reading emails, scanning headlines, reading blog posts, watching videos, listening to podcasts, and tripping from link to link. Carr makes his claim even more true by doing his research. He interviews different people who notice the change in their behavior when it comes to reading or research. Carr asks people who career is based off reading. For example, he uses Scott Karp. Karp was a literature major in college he admits that he completely stopped reading books because he got all his information from the internet. He also talks to Bruce Friedman. Friedman says he lost the ability to absorb longish articles. Even in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche got a typewriter and noticed how his writing style was different. He would change words to make it shorter. Carr is waiting for neurological and physical experiments that explain the effects of internet use have on the brain. Carr noticed people skim through articles instead of actually reading them. He also learned that people actually do read a lot thanks to text messages. Carr also noticed …show more content…
He says after two lines he loses focus. That’s exactly me. To be honest, I had difficulty reading this article. I noticed that in high school when I started to stray away from paper articles to reading articles on the computer. Also, when he says his mind thinks of something else to do. That’s me because I start thinking of what I’m going to do after I finish my homework or after what I’m working on