Nicholas Carr is the author of the article “Is Goggle making us stupid? Google proponents say that it’s not, they say that we don’t have to use our memory as much as before. Thanks to Google we have more time now to daydream or brainstorm. Or that we can see Google as an huge external hard disk for our brain. Carr thinks that this is bullshit.
Short critical reflection Mary Gundersen INF 103 April 30, 2012 Erika McCulloch Short critical reflection Short critical reflection is as searching information with Google is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and do I think it is true, that the library in the 19th century more efficient. Yes, I do think it is more efficient in the 19th century because back then they did not have the internet as we do today. If he or she has ever research in a library they would know that is very more efficient to look up information but, into today world we have the internet and it is deficiently a huge task not easy on search engines that he or she can choose from but not only Google is by far the most Famous. Nevertheless, each one is just a search engine and not a library. When individual logs onto the internet he or she may found a sense of information over kill since there is no filters in place to organize from the truth or the fiction of items that he or she reads, and Searching in a specific database, such as Ashford’s Library is different from searching in Bing, Google, and Yahoo.
Fluid intelligence doesn’t look much like the capacity to memorize and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. But building it up may improve the capacity to think deeply that Carr and others fear we’re losing for good. And we shouldn’t let the stresses associated with a transition to a new era blind us to that era’s astonishing potential. We swim in an ocean of data, accessible from nearly anywhere, generated by billions of devices. We’re only beginning to explore what we can do with this knowledge-at-a-touch.
What this unnamed internet user was trying to explain is that if a reader is skimming and not interested in a subject online, that it is the author’s fault and not the internet as a whole. Therefore, people won’t waste their time reading through half a book or magazine article before they realize that the text is boring and has no useful information. This comment went along perfectly with Hornsby’s argument that the enormous amount of information on the internet and Google could not possibly be harmful to the human
Carter Campbell Mr. Abedinifard ENG 102 (AS25) 31 Oct 2014 In his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, published in The Atlantic, Nicolas Carr expresses his opinions on the effect the internet has on people’s attentions spans and their intelligence. Carr talks about how reading lengthy articles has become more challenging for him as his internet usage increases. “Immersing myself in a book or article used to be easy. That’s rarely the case anymore” (92). Not only does Carr believe this but states others, including friends and colleagues are also experiencing this affect.
Summary of “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr Nicholas Carr argues in, “Is Google Making us Stupid?” that the internet is changing the way we think. The internet looks to be slowly taking away the ability to focus very long, and is becoming the most widely used medium for information. Carr has the feeling that he no longer thinks like he used to. Reading a long book or article is no longer enjoyable to him. He attributes this feeling to the extensive use of the internet and computers, even though this usage of the internet has been to help him write.
Although not commonly recommended as a search engine for which to look for high impact, peer-reviewed, scientific information, Google has been an invaluable resource to all of us when it comes to locating images, quotes, facts and other information with which to adorn our assignments. It was only natural, then, that I turned to Google for advice on how to write a valedictory speech. There I found all manner of information. I found, for example, that one could purchase a ready-made valediction for as little as 19 dollars 99 US: all one needed to do was to change a few names here and there. Tempting though this was, I continued my search to find that, in 2006 at the Gallatin High School near Nashville, Tennessee, the valedictorian didn’t get to give the speech.
Yes, searching for correct information is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The search engine Google is full of limitless information, as well as misinformation. Even when you believe you have found a proper website that seems like a reliable source, it is almost impossible to find out who the author is or any references. The libraries of the 19th century were more efficient, however, they did have limits. We did not have the access to all those libraries in other countries, or access to information that was not published.
Even though the internet is not a brand new thing, this question was never brought up because of how slow it used to be and because of how many people had access to it compared to now. In this day and age the amount of people who use the internet heavily for a cornucopia of things is amazing. It has now become such an integral part of society that it seems it may be changing how our brains our working. When we do anything enough times it will start to affect our brain. If we lie all the time we will start to have a brain that is tailor made to make lying easier (Neulieb).
Technology seems to be subtly destroying the meaningfulness of human interactions, disconnecting us from each other and the world around us, and leading to a menacing sense of isolation in society. We need to go back to simpler times and back to simple communication. People tend to exaggerate the personas they portray because they have much more time to revise and calculate the content rather than a spontaneous face-to-face interaction. Some psychologists and sociologists who have studied usage habits on Twitter, Facebook and popular dating sites say there's little correlation between how people act on the internet and how they act in person. Not to mention, Face to face communication had been the "norm" for thousands of years.