Bridgett Goss English 101 MWF 11-11:50 September 23‚ 2012 Dr. Barko Are IPhones Making Us Stupid? Have we become too depended on our portable technology? Some people‚ not just teenage girls‚ cannot function without having their phone in hand constantly. Technology is not a just product anymore‚ it is a lifestyle‚ and without it people honestly do not think that they will not make it. These smart phones have everything on them; you can access internet search sites‚ shopping net
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Michael English 121.01 4 February 2013 Is Google Making Us Stupid Nicholas Carr Since the development of Google‚ there has been a vast amount of information available on various topics or subjects. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” explains and examines the different ways that the internet has been more useful and beneficial‚ according to the words of the author‚ Nicholas Carr. According to the readings‚ the author represents and expresses his thoughts and
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English Comp. 111 Technology in My World In today’s society there are so many things that are distractions in our everyday life. Some people are obsessed with their religion‚ some people are hooked on sports‚ but in the last forty years or so people have really become obsessed with technology. Not because technology is just the only thing out‚ but because technology has advanced in so many different ways. The cars we drive‚ phones we talk on‚ TV’s we watch have all advanced in major ways. My
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“Is Google Making Us Stupid” In “Is Google Making Us Stupid‚” Nicholas Carr discusses over the question about the cause and effect of how Internet impacts our thinking‚ reading‚ writing habits‚ and how our brains react to adapt to the “new-media rule”. The author uses many specific examples and statistics to demonstrate his point of view. Throughout the first part of the article‚ Nicholas Carr argues whether our reading and writing habits may be affected by the search engines on Google. We used
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October 2014 Is Google Making Us Stupid? Today‚ the Internet has become a big part of our lives. We rely deeply on it to obtain information‚ but it makes it harder for us to retain information. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr uses allusion‚ metaphor‚ and an appeal to logos in order to explain that the Internet is making society less smart and more reliant on technology. Carr uses various allusions in order to give the reader a better understanding of technology today. He alluded to
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In this article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ Nicholas Carr discusses the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence as the main source of knowledge. Artificial intelligence has the ability to condense one’s life into the cyber world‚ most time of a phone or computer: “It’s becoming our map and our radio and T.V” (Carr‚ 3). Giving that much control and information about one’s life into such a system that is insecure and easily accessible can be very
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answering questions‚ translating‚ playing … etc. What people don’t realize when using the internet is that they become addicted to easy ways to get information. The brain is affected with jumping from one page to another. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ Carr declared that the internet change the way people think (Carr 500). He also wrote that the internet reduces a person ’s ability of concentration and deep thinking (501). Spending little time to gain information reduces the ability of concentration
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In his article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid‚” Nicholas Carr‚ a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and a member of the steering board for the World Economic Forum’s cloud computing project‚ criticizes the overall impact of the internet‚ as a whole‚ on the human process of thought‚ comparing his past level of conception to “a scuba diver in a sea of words” whereas his current understanding simply “zip[s] along the surface” (Carr 68). Carr targets the prominent internet search engine
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? The article written by Nicholas Carr criticizes the Internet’s (not just Google’s) effects on our cognition. It points out the problem of lower concentration and contemplation and the problem of decreased focus on long pieces of writing or reading. It also states that according to the research users are not reading in traditional sense online. Even though I am highly aware of negative effects of Internet‚ there are still many advantages that Internet and Google brought
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Michelle Huynh English 4 Professor Polster April 22‚ 2015 “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains‚” the author Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet has detrimental effects by altering the way we comprehend and the way our brain functions. Carr’s mind is changing because he is not thinking the way he used to think. He used to love reading books and articles‚ but now he can barely get through two or three pages because his
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