Monthly 2008‚ Nick Carr writes that Google has made it easier for us to take in information‚ quickly at great volumes‚ the effect of the mechanical clock‚ along with the algorithm‚ and finally he finishes his essay writing about Google being a perfect search engine. Carr states that the technology is changing the way that society reads and writes; the Internet is shaping the process of thought. The Internet has caused the concentrations often to drift after two or three pages. Carr explains that
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Summary of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr As the internet offers us the benefits of quick and easy knowledge‚ it is affecting the brain’s capacity to read longer articles and books. Carr starts Is Google Making Us Stupid with the closing scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey when Dave taking apart the memory circuits that control HAL‚ the artificial brain of the ship. Carr feels the time he spends online is rewiring his brain. He is no longer able to concentrate long
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In the article‚ Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is making us less attentive and overall less intelligent‚ Which in his opinion is making us "dumber". Carr’s article refers to a growing body of scientific work to prove his point. A study conducted at Cornell University revealed that while some areas such as visual-spatial intelligence are increased by internet use‚ "new weaknesses in higher-order cognitive processes‚" such as "abstract vocabulary‚ mindfulness‚ reflection‚ inductive problem
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The aim of this essay would discuss on whether ethics is required or optional on business. On this essay it will analyse four ethics theory‚ namely Milton Friedman‚ R. Edward Freeman‚ Albert Carr and Carroll. Milton Friedman and Albert Carr illustrate that ethics is required whereas Edward Freeman and Carroll state ethics is optional. After analysing these theories‚ it is difficult to find out that whether ethics is optional or required. However choosing on whether ethics is optional or required
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in the world economy‚ while for others a more regional approach would be better‚ by Chris Carr and David Collis. REPRINT NUMBER 53103 [GLOBAL BUSINESS ] ShouldYou Have a Global Strategy? A globally integrated strategy isn’t right for every company. One important factor to consider is the combined market share of the largest companies in your industry — and how that’s changing. BY CHRIS CARR AND DAVID COLLIS Senior executives weighing strategies appropriate for today’s global economy
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The Shallows Essay In Nicholas Carr’s book‚ “The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing to our Brains‚” he makes the powerful point that in order to assume technology’s power‚ especially intellectual technology‚ we must pay a particularly high price. Carr states this idea in one quote from his book‚ “The price we pay to assume technologies power is alienation. The toll can be particularly high with our intellectual technologies. the tools of the mind amplify and in turn numb the most intimate‚ the
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Historians‚ Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh‚ have came to identify several factors that demonstrate the higher status and the fewer restraints that women residing in Maryland held. The women in England had additional restraints and a lower social status. This was expressed in The Planter’s Wife. In the late 1680’s‚ many immigrants came to Maryland. The majority of these immigrants were found to be men. Very few women chose to resettle. Many did not wish to leave their families and communities
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Nicholas Carr Summary In the article “All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines”‚ Nicholas Carr conveys a message on how an overreliance with technology causes people to become helpless and naïve. Humans are undeniably defective; however‚ with the perfection in automation‚ computers have the capability to replace imperfect people. Demonstrated throughout Carr’s article‚ his concern for the future of humanity became apparent though the overreliance‚ laziness‚ and
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” Nicholas Carr told us about because of the Internet will distract us‚ down to people can’t have depth thinking when we are working‚ and this is the main idea of this article too. In Carr’s article he gave an example which is from Cornell University‚ some people did an experiment which test two group people in can use internet and can’t use internet ways‚ the result the people who can use Internet has been distracted‚ and the people that can use Internet got the lower grade. Carr also showed
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article called Does the Internet Make You Dumber by Nicholas Carr states that‚ “The Internet grants us easy access to unprecedented amounts of information. Growing body of scientific evidence suggest that the Net‚ with its constant distractions and interruptions‚ is also turning us into scattered and superficial thinkers” (1). Carr states in his article that the Internet affects people in a negative way‚ messing with their attention and memory. Carr also states how focused you are affects your personality
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