The Internet Takeover The piece‚ “Is Google Making us Stupid?”‚ by Nicholas Carr provides an interesting view from a writer’s perspective of his change in processing information due to the growing digital world. He reflects on how the internet has made his life easier but also caused his attention span to shorten. He believes that while the internet is very helpful‚ it is changing the way people think. Carr relates his struggles to those of many of his intellectual colleagues and how it has changed
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In Nicholas Carrs article Cognitive Load he theorizes that the brain can only retain so much information before it becomes too much. Carr infers that everyone has a mental capacity and once it is expended trying to learn more information becomes pointless. Carr calls this cognitive overload‚ when the brain exceeds the capacity of working memory. However‚ Carr says that cognitive overload is manageable once we become aware of how it works and how to compensate for it. I do believe everyone could have
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Many people use the Internet in their everyday lives‚ but they do not understand the negative aspect that it has in their lives. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he explains to us how the Internet affects our brains in a negative way. Some people disagree with Carr and say that the Internet is just a resource that we use in our everyday lives and it does not affect us negatively. Even though the internet has many positive aspects‚ the internet affects us more negatively
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Individual consumers need to become more aware of technologies effect on craftsmanship because individual users are distracted from true craftsmanship by technology. Within Nicholas Carr’s essay‚” Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ technology and company’s such as Google are distracting one away from a desire for craftsmanship. Nicholas Carr raises the point
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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
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr is an article that is questioning the effect that technology is having on our brains. There are advantages to having any information available to us. However‚ there are imperative disadvantages as well. The longer we use the Internet‚ the more expected it is that we will be unable to concentrate on extensive pieces of writing. As a result of our recent lack of focus‚ we often skim what we do read; therefore the creators of Google are attempting to adapt
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concern arises from Nicholas Carr’s‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr grabs the attention of most‚ if not all‚ the viewers of this title‚ as he uncovers his highly critical article of the Internet’s effect on cognition. Carr employs numerous strategies to influence the attitudes‚ actions‚ and beliefs of his audience. Interestingly‚ he doesn’t particularly aim his writing to a specific age group or a distinct group of people; he broadens his article because it can apply to anyone. Carr uses Google as
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In the passage The Global Village of Violence‚ Nicholas Carr establishes claims of animus behavior‚ brought on by technological increase in communication. He believes that if people as a whole could “share our thoughts and feelings with everyone else all the time” then we might be able to “overcome our distrust and fear” and possibly even “live together peacefully”. For many to be categorized as “one” is an idea that sounds relatively pleasant to most folk. But‚ could it actually be so easily attainable
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Based on the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” written by Nicholas Carr‚ my opinion is that I agree with Carr’s thesis that the internet is interrupting human life. My opinion is that the internet is causing more problems than solving them. For example‚ I understand that the internet has websites like Wikipedia and other online sources that can help someone write a report on a war or side with a certain group about something. But‚ sometimes these articles on these websites can be changed by anyone
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to Google and all other commercial Internet companies‚ we are closer to all kinds of information‚ both useful and useless‚ than any other time in human history. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ he admits how the immediate access to the rich store of online information is benefiting him largely as a writer (Carr‚ 589). While enjoying this positive influence of the Net‚ however‚ he brings up a side effect of the Internet which is hardly ever mentioned:
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