In his essay “Is google making us stupid” Nicholas Carr explains how the internet has helped us to gather vast amounts of information very quick‚ but also how it has affected our attention span when the time comes to read long pieces of texts. Carr also feels that our brains are constantly getting rewired due to the amount of time we spend online has caused him to lose concentration when he is reading. Besides‚ make it easier to find information and rewiring our brains the internet has changed the
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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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on whether this is true or not are Nicholas Carr & Jamais Casio. Both have very different and opinions on how the Internet is used today. Nicholas Carr was the first person to publish an article involving the problems with today’s technology‚ specifically Google. In his article Carr gives detailed information to his readers on why this type technology is bad. “What the net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.” (Carr). Although‚ in his article‚ “Get
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In Nicholas Carr’s piece‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid”‚ he makes an argument many people might not ever consider. He claims that the internet has actually affected how human beings process information. He begins to illustrate this point using a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where HAL‚ the supercomputer‚ is being disassembled by the man the machine nearly (purposefully) killed. Carr emphasizes the fact that the computer could “feel” its’ “brain” being taken away as the man stripped
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aware of your surroundings. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “The Deepening Page” by Nicholas Carr the author explains the rise in value of undistracted reading and the how technology took away that skill but brought us closer to our primal way of thinking. Reading is an abnormal skill that takes training and practice. It is not something humans are born knowing how to do. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Carr states
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1- Reflection on the article of Carr In May 2003‚ Harvard Business Review (HBR)‚ a magazine mainly addressed to business people in general such as managers‚ analysts and strategists etc.‚ and IT constituencies in particular such as vendors‚ researchers‚ engineers etc.‚ published a revolutionary article written by Nicholas Carr entitled “IT doesn’t Matter”. This article has created a huge debate within the IT industry‚ from opponents and proponents the opinions differ considerably. So in order
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Nicholas Carr‚ author of the article “Is Google making Us Stupid‚” argues that the internet is become our main source of information‚ and the internet is change the way we read and write. He also argues that one day we will be taken over by the world of technology (Carr 3). Carr gives his examples by stating a personal experience‚ anecdote stories about his friends and collogues‚ he even gives facts straight from the people who work at Google‚ and he even uses an analogy to give an example of what
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In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. Carr speaks on how over the last decade his focus and ability to concentrate has been declining due to the fact that he has a plethora of knowledge available to him on his smartphone or computer‚ thus he is not able to focus on a task at hand for as long as he could before the age of information. Carr claims that his mind is changing for the worse and backs his evidence with first hand accounts of respected scholars who also share the same
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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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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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