Exemplification Essay: Is Technology Making USupid?

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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 …show more content…

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

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