“Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” by Nicholas Carr illustrates to me that the internet is slowing down the development of our brain. I agree with his argument that technology has affected out attention span, he sets an example of how we now cannot concentrate on the readings, Scott Karp, and Bruce Friedman, both agree that their ability to read long articles has been affected by the web. Also, I agree with Carr that we are becoming low thinking people because the internet gives us easy access to have quick information research.
However, I think that Google and the internet are actually helping us to learn new information. It is because when the computers are not here, we do all things by hand. If you want to know what a word means, you would need to get a dictionary. If you want to look up something that your teacher mentioned in class, but you don’t know what it is, or how does it look like. Then, you would have to find the encyclopedia to look for it.
In nowadays, we do everything by computer, communicate with people, blogging, searching, watch videos, etc. We can learn new information quickly by searching from the internet. As Carr said, “It [the Net] injects the medium’s content with hyperlinks, blinking ads, and other digital gewgaws, and it surrounds the content with the content of all the other media it has absorbed. A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we’re glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper’s site” (Carr 62).
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They take away our concentration, when we are reading an article there are lots of ads, hyperlinks, which would take our attentions. Thus, we will go to another website and look for other stuffs. Furthermore, Carr explains that, “The clock’s methodical ticking helped bring into being the scientific mind and the scientific man. But it also took something away… When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating ‘like clockwork.
‘ Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them as operating ‘like computers'” (Carr 62), after the invention of the clocks, people have designated times to do certain things, to eat, to work, to sleep. People actually start obeying the clock. Carr believes that in the future, human will be acting like a machine and this make me think that it is actually a problem. After reading Carr’s article, I realized that the internet has got into me.
Internet has made it hard to stay focused when reading things you don’t have interest on. When there was no internet exists, I would actually find information through books or newspapers, but now, I barely touch them. I just need to open a computer and google the information that I am looking for. And it takes shorter time instead of using a lot of time to read a long article. I think Carr does a good job on giving a lot of evidences to back up his arguments.
