'Is Google Making USupid?' By Kevin Kelly

Technology has become something that most people now cannot live without, and are addicted to it. When we talk about the impact of technology on society, we always talk about the positive effects that it has and about how technology has made life easy on us. We talk about the internet as a source of information and communication, and basically forget the fact that excessive exposure to it leads to internet addiction in the end. We often discuss the fact that technology has made life easy, but it is also easy to forget that it has made us largely dependent on it. The article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, and the article “Better than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—Take Our Jobs” by Kevin Kelly focus on technology. Kevin Kelly focuses on the future, and Nicholas Carr focuses on the effects that technology has on humans.

In the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Nicholas Carr writes about the internet and how the internet has a bad effect on people. Carr thinks that the internet has changed the way that people think, and how we no

longer think like we did in the past. He feels this change especially when reading, in addition to the sense of difficulty in concentrating. Carr stated “My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. Im not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading…” (Carr 314). Nicholas Carr makes the article more personal; he introduced the article with his own personal experiences. He also included that when people use the internet it makes them more reliant on it, and it gets to the point where people stop using their own knowledge and brain. Carr also interviewed some of his friends to get their opinion about the internet and how it affects us, and he used these interviews as evidence. Carr explores the internet’s impact on the way people read. He argues that the availability of so much information has diminished the ability to concentrate on reading, referencing stories of literary types who no longer have the capacity to sit down and read a book, as well as his own personal experiences with this issue. The internet presents tons of data at once, and it is Carr’s assumption that our brains will slowly become wired to better receive this information.
In his article “Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—Take Our Jobs”, the author Kevin Kelly states that we must let robots take our jobs – a development that will empower us to find new and exciting things to do and he implies that the process will allow humanity to liberate itself from drudgery work. Kelly also goes on and states that in the next 80 years, 70% of today’s jobs will be replayed by automation (or robots). Furthermore, Kelly argues that everyone will have access to a personal robot, but the success will go to those who innovate. The author concludes that we should let the robots take over, and that will help us focus on our humanity. (Still need to add quotes in this BP).
Both of the articles "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr, and "Better than Human: Why Robots Will--and Must--Take Out Jobs" by Kevin Kelly were good, and both authors made valid points regarding technology, but I think that Nicholas Carr's article was a lot more persuasive than Kevin Kelly's article.

In his article, Carr provided information on how much technology has changed us, and how it has affected us. Nicholas Carr also brought up a lot of personal experiences or examples to support his material, and that is what made his article more persuasive than Kevin Kelly's article. Carr states “I’m not the only one…The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused of long pieces of writing…” (Carr 315). Although Kevin Kelly's article was more interesting and attention grabbing to me than Nicholas Carr's article, I still think that Nicholas Carr's article was more persuasive than

Kelly's.
All in all, the impact of technology on society is profound. Technology has affected pretty much every aspect of life. It made it an easy life, but it is very easy that it may lose its charm one day. One can cherish the achievement only if it comes after the effort, but everything is so easily accessible because of the technology that it has lost its value. With developments in technology, we may be able to enjoy all the luxuries of life at the price, but at the expenses of the loss of the joy is priceless. Both articles by Kevin Kelly and Nicholas Carr were great, and very interesting, and both articles made great points about technology and the future.