In Nicholas Carr’s article‚ “Does the Internet Make You Dumber”‚ and Steven Johnson’s article‚ “The Genius of the Tinkerer”‚ these men share their perspective on the Internet. The authors believe that the Internet is a source for lots of information‚ but they differ in that Carr believes that the distractions of the Internet do not allow for deep thoughtful ideas‚ and on the other hand Johnson believes that the collaboration provided by the Internet allows for greater ideas. Nicholas Carr and
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and the way we use our faculties of attention. In the articles‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet is doing to our brains” and “Is Google wrecking our memory?” Nicholas Carr and Clive Thompson discusses that humans being are taking over by the use of technology and is affected major parts of our social lives. Carr argues that internet is just a set for people to make money‚ and how our critical thinking skills and attention span is degrading. While Thompson argues that using technology
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Is Google Making Us Stupid Summary Nicholas Carr begins his essay‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains” he references Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey‚ particularly the part where a character is dismantling the brain of and artificial intelligence machine. Carr goes so far as to say that he can relate to the aforementioned machine because he feels his brain has also been tampered with. He quickly loses interest in the activities he used to enjoy‚ such
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technology. In the article titled “Out Semi-Literate Youth? Not So Fast” by Andrea Lunsford‚ she explains the importance of technology and how‚ in most cases‚ technology is able to help develop students. In another article titled “Hal and Me” by Nicholas Carr‚ he stresses the point that technology is pushing ‘the good life’ to the wayside. Although both authors have different opinions when it comes to technology‚ they both agree that changes are occurring due to technological influences on peoples’
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In the article‚ author Nicholas Carr‚ presents a very interesting question: is Google making us stupid? Throughout the article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ Carr provides his audience with plenty of factual information. The audience somewhat travels through a time lapse of how we started out reading simple pieces of literature way back before the printing press was invented and now have evolved into reading articles online. The information leaves the reader thinking about whether or not this is
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Internet has radically benefitted our civilization; legitimate concerns exist on the detrimental effects the Internet has on mental cognition. Nicholas Carr’s article in The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal as well as Bobby Cole’s article in Insider Technology document concerns on the Internet’s detrimental effect on minds and cognition. Nicholas Carr states that Internet causes division and diversion of attention. We are constantly distracted by emails‚ alerts‚ messages and Facebook notifications
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synapses as circumstance change. When people adapt to a new culture phenomenon that includes the use of a new medium that ends up with a different brain. The key theorists for the (negative) screen technology and brain plasticity are Greenfield and Carr. In 2001 study‚ two scholars in Canada asked 70 people to “The Demon Lover”‚ a short story by Elizabeth Bowen. One group read it in a traditional linear-text format; they did read a passage and click the word next to move ahead‚ a second group read
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Google Making Us Stupid?” In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (2010) published in the Atlantic‚ Nicholas Carr discusses the influence that Google brought to human being. Due to the formidable function of internet‚ people are gradually distracting‚ understanding less‚ remember less and learning less. Carr claims that multiple people are prefer to skimming writing pieces rather than reading the whole article. Carr also mentions that the internet not only has a huge influence on the edges of a computer screen
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Impact of the Internet on Thinking | September 24‚ 2010 • Volume 20‚ Issue 33 | Is the Web changing the way we think? | | By Alan Greenblatt OverviewRecently at lunch‚ Eric Wohlschlegel announced‚ “I have to take a BlackBerry pause.”Plenty of people interrupt social and business meetings to check messages on their mobile devices. There was a time just a few years ago‚ Wohlschlegel recalls‚ when his employer didn’t require him to have a BlackBerry. Now‚ as a spokesman for the influential American
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abilities.Nicholas Carr wrote “ “ intellectual technologies”-the tools that extend our mental rather than physical capacities- we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.”(Carr 59) . In other words technology helps abandon independent intellect only to mimic the traits of the technology such as decoding and encrypting information‚ lacking contemplation and limits. In novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card and the article Is Google Making Us Stupid by Nicholas Carr both pieces of
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