Is the Technology and The Internet making us dumb or are we in the next level of being brilliant? Many people have made statements on whether Technology and the Internet are making us stupid or not. In my opinion, As much as I love the internet, I would have to agree that the Internet is making us not intelligent.
Usually, people now search Information on the web, like Google for example. Now Google is used to get information on whichever topic, but have you considered what Google is doing to our brains. According to Nicholas Carr, He states "I worry what Google is doing to our brains. What really makes us intelligent isn't our ability to find lots of information quickly. It's our ability to think deeply about the information. And deep thinking happens only when our minds are calm and attentive. The greater the concentration, the richer our thoughts." If you think about it, the author of the article is right. We can't concentrate when it comes to the Internet. That's the problem, we won't be able to concentrate when we use smartphones, computers, etc because we are always distracted.
Another reason why the Internet is making us not smart is that we aren't paying attention to reality. According to Article D, "On average, people's attention span has dropped over the last ten years." Now, ten years ago our attention span was about twelve minutes. Now
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From what Nicholas Carr states, the internet is just making money because we use it. In the article, he says that "The faster we zip across the web, clicking links and skimming words and pictures, the more adds the internet is able to show us and the more money it makes. So even as the Internet is giving us all that useful information, It's also encouraging us to think superficially. It's making us shallow." The Internet and Google, in general, is giving us all the information we need but it's not really helping us
In my opinion, Google does not make us stupid like Carr suggests in his article. Google may make us seem lazy because we do less reading and physical activity. Information found on websites helps people become smarter and able to learn subjects easier in school. In the end, Carr never really provides scientific evidence that shows the brain’s circuitry having actually changed. I generally agree with Gladstone’s views and think the mirror metaphor is a useful way of talking about the media’s role in a free society. I also think that the computer and the Internet have enhanced our abilities and increased our processing speeds for acquiring knowledge: making the human brain more efficient in multitasking. The young people who are growing up with this new technology will expand it’s future. Gladstone makes the case that media distributors, even ones that seem indestructible, are ultimately subject to the preferences of their audience: us. Citizens should take up the responsibility of learning about and interacting with valuable media sources and reject those that pander to the lowest common
Goldberg, David Theo. “If Technology Is Making Us Stupid, It’s Not Technology’s Fault.” Blog. Digital Humanities. August 16, 2010. Gooch and Suyler. in Argument. Avenue of the Americas, New York.2011. 301-03. Print.
From the beginning of Carr’s article he explains that the internet itself is making “us” more stupid. Carr talks about how his mind has changed over the years because
He states how he used to spend hours reading, but his concentration started to drift after two or three pages. He backed up his theory with stories from others who say they’re experiencing the same thing. But they still await the long-term neurological and psychological experiments that will provide a definitive picture of how the internet affects cognition. After a brief history lesson, Carr starts to incorporate Google into the article. He tells us about Google’s history and their mission.
If you find yourself skimming through pages, looking for bullet points and your mind wandering off, you might be suffering the effects of Google making you stupid. These are the things that Nicholas Carr talks about in his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” was originally published in July 2008 in Atlantic magazine. Carr argues that the use of technology on the daily basis has made us unable to go into deeper thought about things. Along with the opinion of Scientists and other “literary types” he asserts that the web has indeed made us change the way we think. Power Browsing is the new way people are reading, this is where you look from title to title, surfing the web from link to link. Overall, he advocates that eventually our brains will
According to www.telegraph.co.uk, “[y]oung people aged between 16 and 24 spend more than 27 hours a week on the internet.” Certainly this much internet usage would have an effect on someone. What exactly is the effect of using the internet too much? Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” argues that we are too reliant on the internet and it is making the us dim-witted and shortens our attention span. While Clive Thompson’s article “Smarter than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better” states that technology is not only a collection of knowledge, it also a method of sharing and recording our own knowledge. I fall between both Carr and Thompson. I agree with car on his points of us being too reliant on the internet but disagree when he states that it is making us less intelligent. Meanwhile, I also support Thompson’s statement that the internet allows us to assimilate vast amounts of knowledge but disagree with his opinion on how we should be reliant on
Humans have been creating tools that allow us to be do things that would be otherwise impossible since the beginning of our existence. The ability to use and develop new tools is what sets us apart from all other animals. Yet it seems that ever since these tools started being created there were also people that feared these new tools and claimed that they are bad for the human race. The present fear of new technology is illustrated in the essay “Is Google Making us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. In this essay Carr argues that the internet and other new technologies are changing the way we think in a negative way. Carr claims that new technology is making our generation stupid. In opposition the article “Smarter Than You Think” by Clive Thompson
Carr explains how the internet can distract us making it harder to focus on tasks. He explains how processing information has become harder. Notifications, ads, popups can make it difficult if you are trying to read an article or book (Carr 57). The internet has become the center of our attention (Carr 57). Carr is explaining how this is the reason why we are struggling to comprehend a certain piece of information. He adds in his article that scientists, researchers and educators have also noticed the difference in concentration. And in further detail, he explains that we fail to see the important information, thus affecting cognition. He says that the information we gather is not valuable unless we know the meaning behind it. Carr concludes with explaining that the more the internet evolves the less valuable information is to
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr and “How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle are two articles that explore how technology influences our daily lives. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” discusses the effects of the internet in our society, how it is robbing us of our deep thoughts, memories and our ability to read books. Carr also talks about how the internet has become our primary source of getting information. The writer also discusses about how he’s having difficulty focusing on reading. “How Computers Change the Way We Think” is talking about how people don’t use their brains full potential capacity to solve problems. Instead, we depend on technology to do that for us.
In the article “Does The Internet Make you Smarter?” the author, Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He states his argument about whether or not the internet is making society smarter and whether it enhances the success individuals achieve in life. To do this, he uses surveys as evidence and his past experiences on the effects of internet on society to persuade his audience to show his credibility. His main idea of the article was explaining to his readers that the internet is indeed making society more intelligent. He provides the audience with many contrasting points on how the media is making us smarter as a society,
In his article, “Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” Nicholas Carr criticizes the Internet and its role in turning the world into shallow zombies incapable of concentrating on one simple task, much less incapable of multitasking. I respectfully disagree with Mr. Carr. When used strictly for entertainment purposes yes, it can be. When used to teach and learn, it is a very useful tool. The Internet can open up the world to those that may never have a chance to see most of it. It can spark the imagination and curiosity of children and expand their universe. I feel that the Internet, while it can be a repository of useless information, can be a beautiful thing.
Although the Internet is very helpful and has created many technological advances, we as humans are not created to function like a computer. Our minds require deep thought, human interaction, and thorough knowledge of things so we can remember and fully understand concepts. The Internet in itself is a very helpful tool. The advances that have fallowed are truly amazing, along with vast array of information available. Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is very flawed and does not provided adequate resources to back up his claims. That being said, Carr points out things that might otherwise have been looked over and accepted as normal. His question is sincere, thought provoking, and one we all should be asking ourselves before its too late.
How Google Affects People Nicholas Carr argues that the more a person uses the Internet or spends time online, the more it will affect that person’s mind and that corresponds with his or her ability to stay focused; in fact, there is research and experience from others to prove that Carr's argument is correct. In Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, he asserts anxiously how the Internet negatively influences a person's ability to concentrate. Carr’s mind is changing due to spending a lot of time searching the Internet and the result is he cannot think the way he used to think.
Does the internet make you smarter or Dumber? This is the most common question in today’s generation as internet has become very important in todays society. The estimated internet users, which at one point was in millions, has increased significantly with the number of internet users now in billion. Many people feel that the internet makes you dumber while others believe that it brings information at our doorstep with just a click of a button and makes people smarter. With all that unimaginable information out there and internet evolving overtime, there is definitely a lot of valuable information that one can consume through internet, which is not possible to obtain from reading traditional linear text.
If the internet is full of so much information, it should come with a caution sign warning people that it may affect and rewire their brains. The internet/Google has been reprogramming the brain without the person actually knowing it. The internet is such a powerful tool that has been controlling people and changing the brain. It has changed the brain to do things differently like thinking and working differently. The internet is negatively affecting the human brain by changing the way people think, the way people read and creating memory problems. Unfortunately, the internet is no longer an option but a necessity in order to strive in today’s society and indeed should be used if it is required. However, it doesn’t mean that people should take the internet for granted and risk their brains health simply because it beholds any kind of information, truth or lie.