Article Review Of Nicholas Carr's 'Is Google Making USupid'

Everybody today has access to the largest information database in the world, the internet. The internet is an amazing tool that has allowed people to access tons of information at the click of a button. Recently, the existence of the internet has been questioned for actually making people less intelligent. In Nicholas Carr's article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” he talks about how the internet is rewiring the human brain and making it harder for people to focus. I agree with Nicholas Carr’s theory that the internet is affecting the general populations way of thinking, lack of empathy and is a distraction rather than a positive attribute to society. When I was in ninth grade my parents bought me an iPhone for Christmas, it could stream the

Comprehension was lost due to I was skimming text instead of actually reading the text in a coherent manner. The retention of information was non existent through the slow paced conventional way of reading. Maryanne Wolf, A developmental psychologist at Tufts University, states in the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, that “When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information”. Maryanne Wolf also stated, “ as people use the internet more and more, our minds get rewired to skim texts to find the answers we are looking for then we leave all the rest of the info behind.” The internet has influenced society to take the “easy way out” instead of gaining knowledge and the full enjoyment and pleasure of conventional

This detachment from technology helped me to get the full benefit of actually reading. The benefit of conventional reading caused my grades to soar. Realizing the importance of detaching, I saw that I should have done this in earlier my high school career. The detachment would have made my academic career easily successful without exerting too much effort. Carr states, “and the media or other technologies we use in learning and practicing the craft of reading play an important part in shaping the neural circuits inside our brains”. Car believes by his statement that today's technology manipulates the way we read. Technology, in a way, is making people less intelligent because our brains aren’t developing the reading skills and cognitive functions that they need to achieve success. By using the internet to get tasks done in a easier way, we aren’t allowing ourselves to be challenged and grow intellectually. Technology is an amazing tool for our evolving human life. As a society, if we aren’t careful, the overuse of this tool could have negative consequences to society in the