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    Nicholas Carr wrote a book "The Shallows"‚ and a majority of the book is based on how our language has changed because most reading today is done online. Carr believes that the improvement in technology today‚ has a great impact on the way we speak‚ think‚ and read on a daily basis. In his book‚ Carr says that the internet and technology has in a way "remapped" the way our brain is used (Carr 5). Carr explains that even professional authors are falling

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    Digital Distractions Nicholas Carr discusses how technology has influenced the way individuals think and process information in his book The Shallows. Carr argues that people’s ability to focus closely‚ conduct critical thought‚ and recall information is being negatively impacted by the continuous interruptions and easy access to information on the internet. (Carr‚1).“ The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation. The toll can be particularly high with our technology. The tools of

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    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.

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    The online article Ideas by Nicholas Carr goes over the start over social media and the starting thoughts of the effects it would have on life. Carr also goes over the real effects its truly had today. It has opened up a world of communication‚ maybe too much communication. It has also opened a door to negative comments‚ pictures‚ and videos being shared. Carr describes the social media users as sharing too much‚ giving out information about themselves they wouldn’t say to someone’s face about

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    written words how Nicholas Carr successfully uses ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos in his writing to show as a society we are selling ourselves short on learning capabilities. According to Nicholas Carr‚ we are all falling into the trap of receiving knowledge without questioning its sources and not being able to think for ourselves. Is having sources like Google making us stupid? As a society we should be able to educate ourselves on our own without answers being spoon-fed to us on demand. Carr begins

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    Nicholas Carr in The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains (2010) asserts that the internet is the single most powerful mind-altering technology. Carr supports this assertion by giving various‚ significant examples of how people think with the internet today compared to how they thought back then. The writer concludes in order for people to improve skills‚ they will have to cope with the new technology and the way they think. Technology is an expression on human will. “To share know-how

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    Assignments 2‚ Close Reading Nick Aitken Nicholas Carr’s essay‚ ‘Is Google making us stupid?’ proposes the idea that the human mind is undergoing another big change. He ponders how the intake and response to information we collect and how we process that information is changing‚ which he leads to question how will it eventually lead to an impact on us as individuals. Irony however is not lost on the author as this work was published on the Internet and does not conform to what he knows people will

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    internet has made us smarter than ever before‚ but has it also made us dumber? Author Nicholas Carr see’s the internet as a doubled bladed sword. It has its negatives and positives on society. Is society truly better with the internet? These are just some of the multiple questions Carr asks. His main point is how technology makes information quicker to obtain however at the price of our attention spans. Nicholas Carr‚ writer for the New York Times and the Wall street Journal‚ Believed that Google

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    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

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    The statement says that Nicholas Carr thinks that technology’s power is alienation. His words are “the toll can be practically high with our intellectual technologies. The tools of the mind amplify and turn numb the most intimate‚ the most human‚ of our natural capacities – those for reasons‚ perception‚ memory‚ emotion. (Carr‚ 211) He says that by using tech so much we eventually go numb to everything around us‚ is that the truth? Well at this point in time all there was‚ was the ability to observe

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