In this era dominated by technology, where information is readily available at a click, Nicholas Carr’s article attempts to discuss the effect of humanity’s reliance on the internet. While “is Google making us stupid?” initially disguises itself as an article on the effects of internet usage on the mind, Carr’s lack of statistical data severely undermines his claims. His reliance on personal experiences and usage of quotations from other authors without very much analysis renders the article inadequate. Initially, Carr begins his article by quoting lines from the movie “A Space Odyssey”: “‘Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. You are the best. Will you stop, Dave?’ So [,] the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene.” Although I have not seen this movie myself, this quote and a quick watch on YouTube shows me what he is referencing, using these quotes Carr tries …show more content…
From these first few sentences it should have been clear that the rest of the article was going to be an opinion piece, yet I read on, hoping, and perhaps praying that these sentences were just a hook and a fluke. Unfortunately, as I read more and more of the article, I seemed to catch myself becoming more and more irritated at how an article with the title, “is Google making us stupid?” contained nothing more than the thoughts of a man who had grown up at a time when technology was still very new and it seemed to me that he was trying his very best to keep his world from changing by any means necessary, very repeatedly Carr uses personal experiences to justify how he believes technology is “making us stupid”. One instance of this can be found within the article when he explains, “My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”: A Self-Explanatory Rhetorical Analysis The article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid, “as essay suggests, Carr constantly states factors of how and why the internet is creating problems for today’s society. His main reference is to Google, and also discusses other technological advancements throughout history. In using these devices he show how great of an impact they actually have on society. Carr emphasized how using Google we tend to become lazy and unfocused
Writers have different way of getting their point across, for example in the article “is google making us stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. He makes the argument that Google is a convenient tool but is making us less able to process deep information. He use ethos, pathos, logos and tone to prove his thesis in the article. In other words he inform coming generation the consequence of overuses internet. The title and the way he started draw is reader into the article. Carr captures his audience's attention
In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” the reader finds all three methods of persuasion, ethos, pathos, and logos in emphasizing his point that Google is possibly making people stupid; but it is ultimately the people who cause their own mental deterioration. His persuasion is a reminder to people of the importance of falling back on the “traditional” ways of reading. He also understands that in skimming an article one has the ability to retain what is necessary. Carr himself points
Rhetorical Analysis: “Is Google Making Us Stupid” In composing “Is Google Making Us More Stupid” Nicholas Carr wants his audience to be feared by the internet while at the same time he wants his work to seem more creditable. Nicholas Carr uses many different types of evidence to show us that we should be scared and feared as well as his credibility. Carr’s audience is people who think like him, who find themselves getting lost on the internet while reading something, someone who is educated and uses
Rhetoric Analysis: Is Google Making Us Stupid? The article by Nicholas Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid, Carr main argument is as the Internet has become an integral part of our society is changing the way we process information to a simply way of processing information. My interpretation of Carr main argument is that the Internet has made it harder to process complex information and now rendering to process information in a simply manor. The reason he accomplished expressing his argument in a effective
Google is a practical search engine, which provides endless information in a matter of seconds. Google's development occurred in September of 1997 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Mcfadden 2017). It developed into a popular research tool in light of it capacity to perform quickly and accurately. Nicholas Carr argues in his article, “Is Google Making us Stupid?,” the web has evolved to impact the way humans think and process information. “Nicholas Carr writes on the social, economic, and business implications
ever been reading online, and just cannot concentrate? If you have, you're not alone. American Author, Nicholas Carr was a Harvard graduate, who wrote "Is Google making us Stupid." This non-fiction news article informed us about how modern day technology affects our learning or reading. With all this information Carr, explains how google is making us stupid. Nicholas Carr uses Ethos, which is an appeal to authority and credibility. He uses Pathos, which is an appeal to your emotions. He also uses logos
still important to cumulate and explore the proper avenues of information, it can be challenging to decipher between quantitative and qualitative data these days. Nicholas Carr finds an effective balance of anecdote and research in his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” He begins to illustrate his theory to the reader by starting off with a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where a supercomputer nearly kills a man. To accurately assess whether this connection is effectively executed
In Nicholas Carr’s, “Is google making us stupid,” Carr indicates a problem that is affecting a majority of the internet users; that being as time we spend on the internet increases, the more we are diminishing our intellectual ability, and losing the ability to become intertwined in a lengthy article or an extended book. Carr states, the technology we are in contact with on a daily basis, has a negative effect on our cognitive ability, and is forcing our brain’s to evolve. Throughout the article