Is Google Making USupid Summary

In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr clearly states his thesis and the idea that not only is google changing the way we as humans think, read, and write, but all of technology is affecting us in our everyday lives. The internet sources such as Google are created to find information fast and easy for users. Google does all the searching and hard work of having to read through huge articles. We are humans have it easy now, we no longer have to do all the reading and digging around of endless articles and papers.

I am analyzing Nicholas Carr's essay titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", where he supports his message using the pathos associated with his use of allusions, anecdotes, testimonies, and powerful diction. In the beginning of his essay, Carr provides the reader with an allusion to Stanley Kubrick's "A Space Odyssey". This reference reads "'Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave.

That is why Carr thinks Google is bad or changing the world, because we, as a whole, dont stimulate our brains as much anymore by actually looking things up instead of just typing them into

They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would bounce out to another site. The author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid’’is Nicholas Carr. The purpose is to prove that the Internet is changing the way people think and how they spend their time on the Internet. Carr’s article is for adults who depend on the Internet for research and information are the main readers. Nicholas Carr uses pathos to show his argument that the Internet is changing how we spend our time with the Internet.

One of Carr’s main arguments would have to be that he sees the internet as a benefit and also very harmful in the same sense. He speaks about how “The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer” and how it has been a useful tool to him. It has made it much easier and faster to research information

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The internet influences the human mind and Nicholas Carr delves into the reasons in Is Google Making Us Stupid? In this article Carr examines the internet’s influential possibilities. The internet is changing people psychologically but it is not negatively impacting, it is merely an evolution for society. Carr provides well-thought input, spanning from humanity’s psychological alterations to comparisons of historical inventions. SUMMARY

There is are a lot of sources of information. But they may contain totally different ideas. Also, as readers get information faster, they spend less time reading it and are not willing to memorize it. Google is decreasing our ability to remember information because we can easily access the information

Many have become too dependent in using Google. As a human being, we are given a brain that is made to function. But with what is happening right now, Google has become an “alternative brain”. For example, student would simply

In the technology filled world that we live in, people have many different opinions and views on how this technology affects us whether it is positive or negative. This can be seen by comparing “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr and “Smarter than You Think?” by Clive Thompson and their separate opinions on this technology that is affecting us. Both Carr and Thompson agree that technology is having a large impact on people but what they differ on is the type of impact, Carr saying it’s a negative impact by making us too reliant on it and Thompson saying it’s a positive one in the way that it can help us accomplish many things. How has technology changed the skills people already possess? In the essay by Carr, he talks about the typewriter, but more specifically about the writer Friedrich Nietzsche who started to lose his vision and had to master touch-typing to be able to continue writing.

Google is known to make people less efficient by affecting their ability to stay focused. In the article Is Google Making Us Stupid Nicholas Carr explains both ethos and pathos efficiently with credibility through personal problems when on the internet which adds emotions to the human brain. However, the author tends to lack support with his research and statistics leaving the reader to wonder if google is really is making us stupid. In the article Is Google Making Us Stupid the author is arguing if google is making us dumber since we’d rather reach for the internet instead of actually going out of our way to grab a book and reading it.

The Great Library in Alexandria, Egypt was once the center of knowledge of the world and if you could not go there you missed out on all of that information. Google is not making us stupid we are to blame for our laziness and unwillingness to pick up a novel and read it. As the old saying goes don’t kill the

In Nicholas Carr, Is google making us stupid, He emphasizes on many points,the main point being , how before the creation of the internet people had to spend hours and hours in the libraries looking for the right articles, but now with the creation of the internet things can get done faster and more efficiently. He also he argues that before the creation of the Internet people that loved to  read and that had degrees related to reading found themselves less into reading when computers started to make an uprising.   He also argues that the  internet is being a primary source and now and it’s affecting our reading habits and demolishing our brains. In Clive Thompson, Smarter than you think, He’s trying to convince his readers that the internet

Instead the readers are receiving information all about cons of using internet. Also, for instances, Carr failed to provide the reality of today’s internet

Nicholas Carr's argument against the internet was very strong, and it persuaded me. It is very difficult for me to go against his opinion. I agree that the internet is changing us, but not in ways we think. There are long-term effects of using the internet as often as we do. He states that the internet is changing the way our brains function such as having a shorter attention span, negatively changing the way we critically think, and negatively changing our reading skills.