Summary of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr As the internet offers us the benefits of quick and easy knowledge‚ it is affecting the brain’s capacity to read longer articles and books. Carr starts Is Google Making Us Stupid with the closing scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey when Dave taking apart the memory circuits that control HAL‚ the artificial brain of the ship. Carr feels the time he spends online is rewiring his brain. He is no longer able to concentrate long
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Stephen Marche: is Facebook making us lonely? “Is Facebook making us lonely?” In an article for The Atlantic magazine‚ Stephen Marche explores a few articles‚ expert opinion and even quotes a scientist in his quest to answer this question. The article has an overall negative tone. Although Facebook is the most well-known and widely used social media site‚ is it really the culprit? I do not think so. If being lonely is something we can control‚ then we have to read this and reflect. That is‚ of
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Title: The Internet The usage of the internet has become something very common in this modern century and is needed for our daily life. Imagine if we had to live a day without the internet‚ the world would be chaotic and the global economy would fall gradually. This proofs that the internet has its influence on mankind. Hence‚ the internet has its advantages‚ not forgetting the disadvantages which might cause problems to humankind but there are also solutions to overcome or prevent the problem
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Does the Internet make us smarter or dumber? There is a complex debate over the Internet and whether it is making society smarter or dumber. For that matter the debate focuses on the Internet and the intellectuality of individuals‚ and if the Internet hinders or it progresses society as a whole. Other critics argue that the Internet contributes to the decline of our mental state. On the other hand‚ others argue that the Internet promotes and encourages
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INTRODUCTION The internet has enabled faster access of information worldwide. It is the cheapest means to accessing any information. The internet is defined as a tool that can link up all the people in the world who have interconnected computers. We depend on the internet nowadays so much‚with its convenience but again it can act as a weapon against us. Firstly In 1969‚the US Department of Defense started a project to allow researchers and military personnel to communicate
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In Stephen Marche’s article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely”‚ he starts with a very powerful story of Yvette Vickers who was found dead nearly a year after her actual death of being isolated for so long. Yvette Vickers was later known as a “horror-movie icon”‚ after news of her death had spread all across the internet via social media people view her as “a new and different kind of horror” because of this new kind of fear everyone is terrified in which Stephen Marche says is “our growing fear of loneliness”
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In Stephen Marche’s “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”‚ published in The Atlantic in May 2012‚ he brings up the topic of the growing loneliness in America and its possible connection with Facebook. Marche shows us the “accelerating contradiction” (62)‚ where the system that was designed to connect us‚ is actually causing us to become more lonely. Isolation‚ or solitude‚ does not mean that someone is unhappy. Loneliness‚ on the other hand‚ is what makes us miserable. However‚ both are on the rise.
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the way we live. Meaning we have to become sustainable in everything we do before it too late. The need for clean water air‚ affordable and reliable delivery of energy is sincerely needed by both the present generation and mostly future generation. Smarter Plant is a corporative initiative for IBM. IBM has made sustainability one of their top priorities. They are trying to produce products and processes that are more efficient for both the environment and business world. They are also developing new
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Online or internet censorship is the control of publishing of and also accessing of information through the internet. These rules and regulations are mainly carried out by governments or by local organizations. The internet has become such a large source of information over the past decade or two. It is said there are over two million new internet users per month. As more users get a grasp of the internet and become familiar with it the potential of the content
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In “Is Google Making us Stupid”‚ an article published in Atlantic Monthly 2008‚ Nick Carr writes that Google has made it easier for us to take in information‚ quickly at great volumes‚ the effect of the mechanical clock‚ along with the algorithm‚ and finally he finishes his essay writing about Google being a perfect search engine. Carr states that the technology is changing the way that society reads and writes; the Internet is shaping the process of thought. The Internet has caused the concentrations
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