Google Making Us Stupid‚ the author‚ Nicholas Carr suggests that the Internet affects how human beings process literary works. He begins to illustrate this point by using a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where the man purposely disassembles HAL‚ the supercomputer‚ in order to disconnect its ability to think for itself. Carr personifies HAL‚ and describes how it could feel its brain being taken away as the man stripped it of its memory circuits. Carr compares the sensation that the
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Assignment #1: "IT Doesn’t Matter" by Nicholas Carr Nicholas Carr wrote an article entitled IT Doesn’t Matter at first; it reads controversial and needs full of interpretations for the readers. As we read the entire story‚ the author might have a different interpretation of IT and probably points out that we really don’t need IT too much‚ the companies should not spend too much on IT and not more for strategic advantage. Carr said that having IT may delivered the business at risk; instead of
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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 in our everyday life. The Internet is making it harder for us to concentrate and become engrossed in the information that we
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tool‚ providing a world of information at your fingertips very quickly. Getting information‚ for a research project in the past could take days of reading 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
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livestock to farm. Today information technology (IT) is the newest form of technology‚ which has an effect on every North American. In Nicholas Carr’s article‚ “It Doesn’t Matter”‚ he compares information technology to the rapid advancement and decline of outdated technology such as the railroad. Electricity‚ railroad‚ and steamboats were the dominant technology that provided firms
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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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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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Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. Others think access to so much information creates problems. Which view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. Nowadays‚ the word “internet” is widespread all over the world. It is pretty funny if someone says that what is the meaning of internet. Internet really have big impacts on the world and the human mind. And from my point of view‚ it adversely affects to people‚ to
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The internet. Such an ubiquitous entity‚ an omniscient presence in our lives that it is practically impossible to imagine a world without it. Especially in a country like the United States‚ nearly everyone’s lives revolve around it. In Nicholas Carr’s Hal and Me‚ he explores how much the internet has become essential to everything we do‚ from our work‚ school‚ and social lives. He also stresses how it has altered our very own way of thinking‚ how we are basically wired to think like the internet
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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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