Summary Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

The Way We Read is Changing The Internet can be a great educational tool, providing a world of information at your fingertips very quickly. Getting information, for a research project in the past could take days of reading books and journals. Reading books has become almost obsolete. The attention span of a person reading a book is that of a goldfish, two seconds. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” author Nicholas Carr said “Immersing myself in a book used to be easy. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages”(Carr, n.pag). Reading short stories, headlines, and blogs on the Internet has changed the way we read. When on the Internet it is so easy just to read short stories, or emails, because they are short, and
educational consortium. Their findings were that people using these sites had “a form of skimming,” “hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited, and read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would “bounce” to another site”(qtd. in Carr n.pag). This information shows that reading is becoming a lot of short topics and articles. Surfing the web, or bouncing from one site to another site, and skimming the different articles is a way of reading and processing what is being read quicker. The Internet is changing the way we handle and store information in our brains. The brain needs to reprogram itself to intake information at a faster rate. According to James Olds a professor of neuroscience” The brain can reprogram itself and alter the way it functions” (qtd. in Carr n.pag). Getting information from the Internet faster could suggest, that memorizing information is no longer needed. Remember where to find the information would be the only thing to