and playing on computers to creating and finding fun in creation. Whereas in the article “Is The Internet Making Us Stupid?” published on June 16‚ 2008 in New York Times Nicholas Carr’s tells use of internet leads to lose ability for long reading and fall in time span spend on the material. I am not totally agree with K.J Dell’ Antonia and Nicholas Carr’s ideas. I think computer is making us smarter because we can exchange our ideas through one click only all over the globe within few seconds
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“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In the article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid” in the magazine The Atlantic‚ the author‚ Nicholas Carr‚ recounts his difficulties with concentration while reading lengthy articles and books. Carr claims that these difficulties may be caused by an increase in the time he spends on the internet. His principle argument is that the internet provides us with a means of rapidly accessing information that we are searching for and this causes our minds to be used to obtaining
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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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For most children and teenagers‚ using the Internet has joined watching television and talking on the phone in the repertoire of typical behavior. In fact‚ 87 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds are now online‚ according to a 2005 Pew Research Center report. That’s a 24 percent increase over the previous four years‚ leading parents and policymakers to worry about the effect access to worlds of information--and misinformation--has on children. Psychologists are only beginning to answer that question‚ but
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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 as the
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Nowadays‚ making friends on internet has been popular throughout the world. People search for new friends‚ soul mates‚ or confidants. The internet has become an important tool to connect people with each other. Since the internet is so convenient‚ making friends may no longer be a problem. On the other hand‚ Internet Friendship may lead to some troubles because some people make get cheated online. I strongly disagree with the establishment of relationships through internet because I think friends
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr Adapted from The Atlantic Monthly July 2008 “Dave‚ stop. Stop Dave. Will you stop‚ Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001:A Space Odyssey. Dave Bowman‚ having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine‚ is calmly‚ coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial brain. “Dave‚ my brain is going‚” HAL says forlornly. “I can
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To communicate and make new friends indirectly‚ letters used to be the only methods in bygone day and many people are lazy to do so. With the advent of advanced technology on the Internet in recent year‚ the practice of writing a letter seems to take a leap a faith‚ however. The snowballing email-writer and the prevalence of MSN users are the obvious evidences of this drastic change. While we are enjoying the fruit of the technology‚ may we try to stop and think for a while; is it a favor or a trap
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Is Google Making Us Stupid In the Atlantic Magazine‚ Nicholas Carr wrote an article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr poses a good question about how the internet has affected our brain‚ by remapping the neural circuitry and reprogramming our memory. Carr states‚ “My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell-but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the say way I used to think.” Carr went on farther‚ saying that he cannot read as long as he used to‚ his concentration starts to wonder after two or three
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