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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Eyes Opener in Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? On May 2012‚ The Atlantic distributed the article "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?" by Stephen Marche. In it‚ he investigates an intriguing level-headed discussion about online networking. His motivation in composing is to present an intriguing point about social networking‚ as he guarantees that Facebook‚ in particular‚ causing forlornness among clients. In reality‚ as we know it where online networking is vigorously common‚ Marche tries to convey to the
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In the wake of Liam Payne’s new baby‚ and the several reactions of fans and anti-fans I decided to take a closer look at the rhetoric between artist and fans‚ as well as the ill perceived image of fans by other audiences. In 2013 the movie “This Is Us” by Morgan Spurlock was released. The movie is a documentary about the biggest boy band since Take That and Backstreet Boys‚ One Direction. The motion picture didn’t only focus on the band and their Take Me Home tour‚ it also had an emphasize on their
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MANAGEMENT : GOOGLE Popularized around the world by multinational company Google‚ this management style called « chaotic » believes that employees perform to their full potential when they are given a free hand. Many modern thinkers believe that chaotic management style allows an employee to work on his idea‚ without the interference of the management‚ and this helps in creating new innovations. They are also of the opinion that chaotic management style will be adopted by a lot of companies in
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Google Is a Double-Edged Sword Where can college students find some important data at the midnight when all the libraries close? The answer is: if they search on Google and they can get whatever they want. Doesn’t it sound pretty convenient while the student who gets in trouble? Absolutely! However‚ this kind of approach caused the college students to think less. Nicholas Carr says in the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid‚ “The more they use the Web‚ the more they have to fight to stay focused
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26 September 2013 Is Google Actually Making Us Stupid? Is Google‚ with all of its information at the tip of our fingers actually making us dumber than we are? On July 1st 2008 an article was written by Nicholas Carr titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and this article was taken differently by many people. He talks about how he has problems reading ever since he discovered Google. Carr states “my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety‚ lose the thread‚ begin
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr asks this question in his Article published in The Atlantic Magazine and poses the readers to give it some thought. Carr is of the opinion that the internet is changing the way people think and how their minds work; hence he argues that this has a negative effect on the mind of people. Carr suggests that‚ people’s intellectual lives are becoming like a piece of work in industrial manufacturing that are built for maximum speed and efficiency (Carr n.p.).
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Is Google making us stupid‚ is asked. Well many do believe so. And even though Google has been thought to make us stupid in a sense. It has also benefited us tremendously. We are provided with a searching mechanism where pretty much anything can be explored in the matter of a click or two. For instance‚ your research paper can be done much faster simply because Google provides you with all the necessary information. You can have an article in the length of a two pages minimized down to a couple of
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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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“What really makes us intelligent isn’t our ability to find lots of information quickly. It’s our ability to think deeply about that information.” (Is Google Making Us Stupid?) There are very many risks to technology. This is unfortunate because technology rates are growing rapidly. Some risks to technology include causing distractions‚ and causing addiction. (Source 2) To begin with‚ a risk of technology is causing distractions. “If we’re distracted we understand less‚ remember less‚ and learn
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