make you dumber”‚ by Nicholas Carr unsupporter of literacy by internet‚ portrays that each article have different points of views regarding the internet making us smarter or dumber. Clay Shirky uses more historical examples of texts that were written in the form of books way before there was Internet. Nicholas Carr uses more proven statistics and psychological information in his article‚ to persuade his audience. In the next paragraphs I will compare and contrast both Nicholas Carr and Clay Shirky’s
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them‚ it’s essential that we‚ as a collective unit‚ decide if the internet is controlling us so we can abandon it and have our mental capacities cleared up from propaganda that the Internet feeds us. In Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows‚ this whole debate is brought unto the forefront. According to Carr‚ the internet limits our knowledge growth‚ rather than expand it. Although I‚ as one of its avid users‚ see many benefits of the internet to our daily lives‚ I understand Carr’s argument that the internet
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there is no doubt that the one thing would be technology. The Shallows: What Internet is Doing to Our Brains is nonfiction book written by Nicholas Carr who asserts and cautions the effects that internet has on everyone to this day and even more so in the future. People nowadays can communicate with people all around the world using many different types of communications such as social networking sites‚ cell phones‚ emails‚ etc. Carr brings in many different scientific research as well as a couple
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2013 Is Google making us Stupid: An article by Nicholas Carr Over history technology has changed mankind’s overall culture. From clocks to computers the use of electronics and tools is occurring every day in almost all situations. In Carr’s article “Is Google Making us Stupid?” he introduces the idea how the internet is changing our lives by making us mentally process information differently from the past‚ based off previous changes in history. Carr explains how we think less deeply and rely on
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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 the article‚ Nicholas cart discusses
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The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains Nicholas Carr Over the last two decades the Internet has developed into instant source of information. Libraries and museums are slowing becoming useless for research and development‚ because of how easy and simplistic it is to discover information with just a couple mouse clicks away. Now in modern libraries people do not just go there for books‚ but they are there for the wifi hotspots as well. Tapping of the keys is the most predominant
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Introduction The tax in all ages of the main themes that ran researchers because of their Close contact conditions peoples‚ and that in terms of political‚ economic and social‚ Taxes are link material that binds the individual government‚ one of the most important tools used by governments in drawing its financial‚ economic and social terms used tax revenue first in the financing of programs of public expenditure that has become increasing in moment . Taxes working to raise the economic
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Cited: Carr‚ Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" TheAtlantic.com. The Atlantic‚ 1 July 2008. Web. 18 Mar. 2013. Carr‚ Nicholas. "The Web Shatters Focus‚ Rewires Brains." Wired.com. Wired Magazine‚ 24 May 2010. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. Cherpit‚ Eric. “Who Are You? And Who Are You On The Internet?” YouTube‚ 20 Oct 2011. Web
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Guardian News and Media‚ 17 Mar. 2012. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/17/facebook-dark-side-study-aggressive-narcissism>. "Nicholas Carr ’s: The Shallows." PBS. Ed. Jeffrey Brown. PBS‚ 27 Aug. 2010. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/08/conversation-nicholas-carrs-the-shallows-what-the-internet-is-doing-to-our-brains.html>. Tippet‚ Krista. "On Being." Transcript. American Public Media‚ 7 Apr. 2011. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. <http://being
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decided to write anew about it‚ for my e-letter today. In this anti-technology piece‚ Pulitzer finalist Nicholas Carr accuses the Internet of harming our brains. (1) Carr blames the Net for the changes he noticed in his reading comprehension‚ likewise in his inability to concentrate reading extensive articles. (2) He argues so passionately about it‚ that it led to a book‚ entitledThe Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. However‚ is Carr’s accusation warranted by science? For contrary
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