The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Minds

Imagine a world where people are all programmed to think a certain way, where every action is robotic,. wWhere they have no freedom of thought. T, this is the reality we face that is described in the book written by Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Google is restructuring the human mind for its own purposes, forof faster information extraction and retrieval. The fact that Google is doing this is wrong, because we should be able to do more than parse through data as quickly as possible.
Google has been conditioning our minds to be able to go through data faster, to click on more links, and to make them more money. However, the human mind shouldn’t be trained to just go through things quicker and to inhale more information. The mind should not only learn new information, but it should also be able to reflect over and contemplate the new information that it is constantly receiving. The mind should be able to say, “This isn’t right, and we can’t allow this to go on” on topics it feels strongly about. An example of why this transformation of the human mind is a step
However, this is negatively affecting our abstract thinking and reflection of core ideals. It reprograms us to act like robots; by simply taking in as much information as possible, we stop thinking about what we are observing. “When carried into the realm of the intellect, the industrial ideal of efficiency poses, as Hawthorne interprets, a potentially mortal threat to the pastoral ideal of meditative thought,”(Carr 168) what this quote means is that the faster that we learn ideas and concepts, the less we see of the bigger picture. We can memorize as many ideas and facts, that Google is force feeding our minds, but we would not truly understand what we are learning, or know how to apply those ideals to our everyday