The Effect Of Google By Nicholas Carr
The Affect of Google
By reading the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr, could briefly summarize the main ideas. Google has affected people in many ways and impact their brains work. Nicholas Carr begins by discussing how he feels that the Internet is causing his focus issues, in which he cannot keep focus while reading a book. If people grow up with doing multitasking like doing homework and listen to a music, they are going to lose some abilities that the normal people have. Indeed, people who read traditional linear text comprehend more than people who read text studded with links. Also, people who do one thing at a time are more likely to be creative and more productive than those who juggle many tasks. On the other hand,
some studies indicated that playing video games in the PlayStations or on the computer could increase the speed of shifting the brain focus from one thing to another. However, other studies found that rapid shifts in focus result in less rigorous and more automatic thinking. In addition, people use the Internet to get some information, and they say it is quicker and easier instead of searching for books or articles in libraries. The article also tells an experiment that Carr has his own personal experiences with the negative effects of the Internet. Also, he provides research on how other writers had agreed with him on the subject to support his strategies of logos. Carr uses this information because people as readers can relate to it, like he does. Which is causing people to lose focus when looking at physical readings instead of actually reading and writing pieces to get the full meaning and taking in the information, people are just skimming the pages.
By reading the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr, could briefly summarize the main ideas. Google has affected people in many ways and impact their brains work. Nicholas Carr begins by discussing how he feels that the Internet is causing his focus issues, in which he cannot keep focus while reading a book. If people grow up with doing multitasking like doing homework and listen to a music, they are going to lose some abilities that the normal people have. Indeed, people who read traditional linear text comprehend more than people who read text studded with links. Also, people who do one thing at a time are more likely to be creative and more productive than those who juggle many tasks. On the other hand,
some studies indicated that playing video games in the PlayStations or on the computer could increase the speed of shifting the brain focus from one thing to another. However, other studies found that rapid shifts in focus result in less rigorous and more automatic thinking. In addition, people use the Internet to get some information, and they say it is quicker and easier instead of searching for books or articles in libraries. The article also tells an experiment that Carr has his own personal experiences with the negative effects of the Internet. Also, he provides research on how other writers had agreed with him on the subject to support his strategies of logos. Carr uses this information because people as readers can relate to it, like he does. Which is causing people to lose focus when looking at physical readings instead of actually reading and writing pieces to get the full meaning and taking in the information, people are just skimming the pages.