Stupid By Nicholas Carr Summary
Nicholas Carr believes a person often becomes distracted due to the amount of time that they have consumed on the Internet. In Carr’s article, he’s not necessarily saying that Google is making us “stupid,” but the fact that there is so much that can be going on Carr then formed a hypothesis on why he thinks people are easily distracted, the Internet. The Internet contains numerous of information, which caused individuals to change the way they process their thoughts, in another word, the way they think. He tried to argue that technology is taking part of forming in his thoughts. He makes suggestions that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and that it has negative consequences on the mind. Carr believes that we should be skeptical
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Now, everyone looks ahead and wonders what is next before completing the task or activity at hand. Carr believes that the Internet will soon cause neurological and psychological problems. He described how the internet is set up to make other people money and how it has reduced individual’s attention span. Individuals became dependent on their technologies, for instance, instead of doing intensive research; we tend to depend on “Google” to complete it. To help support his discussion, he brings up a very interesting part of history. With the invention of the mechanical clock, people minds were changed into thinking in sections of time. Carr said that people used to say brains worked like clockwork, people could sleep when they were tired and eat when they were hungry, but after the clock, people suddenly had designated times to do certain things. And now they work like computers. Carr stated in his article that the Google’s company was designed to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. From clocks to computers the use of electronics and tools is occurring every day in almost all situations. All of his claims became more valid after he referenced some of his acquaintances and reinforced his argument and
Now, everyone looks ahead and wonders what is next before completing the task or activity at hand. Carr believes that the Internet will soon cause neurological and psychological problems. He described how the internet is set up to make other people money and how it has reduced individual’s attention span. Individuals became dependent on their technologies, for instance, instead of doing intensive research; we tend to depend on “Google” to complete it. To help support his discussion, he brings up a very interesting part of history. With the invention of the mechanical clock, people minds were changed into thinking in sections of time. Carr said that people used to say brains worked like clockwork, people could sleep when they were tired and eat when they were hungry, but after the clock, people suddenly had designated times to do certain things. And now they work like computers. Carr stated in his article that the Google’s company was designed to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. From clocks to computers the use of electronics and tools is occurring every day in almost all situations. All of his claims became more valid after he referenced some of his acquaintances and reinforced his argument and