his or her parents would do when they were young‚ he or she will pull out his or her smartphone and “google” it. Thanks to Google and all other information technology providers‚ the information and knowledge in this world are closer to the netizens than any other time in the history. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ more than acknowledging the great opportunities which Google has brought to him‚ Carr brings up his own concern that “the Net …is chipping away [his] capacity for
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In the article‚ Is Google Making Us Stupid‚ Nicholas Carr uses relatable instances and never ending advancements in technology to answer the debate of whether society’s dependence on the internet directly leads to compromised intelligence. With the continuing use of the web in everyday life‚ people become accustomed to finding information with new technologies‚ making them more simple minded‚ but still more informed overall. Carr starts off his article by mentioning the change in how people read
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Is Google‚ the internet‚ and technology making us as a society stupid? This is a hard question to answer yes or no to. Nicolas Carr answers “My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” It’s Agreeable that Google‚ the internet‚ and technology are not necessarily making us stupid‚ rather changing our thought patterns and processes. So much information is available with the click of a button‚ but just because people have access to billions or
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Abigail Fogliano Mr. Ugenti English 12 2-8-17 In class we watched a video from “A Space Odyssey” and read an article called “Is Google Making us Stupid?” The video is about a robot acting like a human and refusing to do what the human is telling him to do. In this case it is like the human is the robot. The tone makes it very scary. “Is Google Making us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr is about his idea that the internet is taking over and is affecting the way that the human mind operates. Carr relates
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Is Google Making us Stupid? Information technology (IT) has grown tremendously in the United States and around the world. Everyone in the country understands the importance of technology and uses the different technological gadgets in their daily activities. One cannot go a short distance without seeing someone with a mobile phone‚ tablet or laptop. These gadgets have internet applications‚ such as Google. According to Pinker (2010)‚ the internet has been around for several decades and people are
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Convenience or Knowledge While Google can be convenient if you need a quick answer or need to find information at a moment’s notice. ‚ People should not be using google as an easy way out to answer questions because the students knowing this can also use this search engine to cheat on test so they can avoid retaining information. The students of today also do not have a sense of working for their own academic goals‚ and this is a problem because the students of this generation do not have to think
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Technology can change the way humans live in daily lives‚ the way we learn and the way we use our faculties of attention. In the articles‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet is doing to our brains” and “Is Google wrecking our memory?” Nicholas Carr and Clive Thompson discusses that humans being are taking over by the use of technology and is affected major parts of our social lives. Carr argues that internet is just a set for people to make money‚ and how our critical thinking skills
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The article “is google making us stupid?” by Nicholas carr discusses how the internet affects people is ability to process information. He begins by pointing out that when people are using google‚ they do not try to understand deep meaning. Nicholas carr further argues that google can attract people attention‚ for example‚ using computer and cellphone all the times. Later in the article‚ Nicholas carr discusses that people’s concentration really decreasing due to the Internet. By the end of
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr‚ in "Is Google Making Us Stupid?‚" conveys a message about what the internet is doing to human brains. Lack of focus and laziness are the new normal for human behavior‚ and Carr speculates what seems to be making humans disconnected from the world they are living in and leading them into acting like robots. Google is a convenient tool to have‚ but it does damage to the brain after a certain period of time. Google is a contradiction itself‚ because it was
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In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”‚ published in the July edition of The Atlantic Monthly‚ Nicholas Carr argues that the constant use of internet and its advancement is harmful to the human brain. Nicholas Carr is an American writer who has written many essays and writings on culture and technology. Carr starts off “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by introducing a film scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey that shows artificial intelligence begging Dave to stop disconnecting memory
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