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Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr

In the reader’s life, Nicholas Carr has his view on Google and the media. We have some massive technological revolutions on the internet and in the media nowadays, and that makes people lose their mental ability. The article gives an instance of the HAL machine, pleading with Dave not to turn him off. HAL has artificial intelligence that is very powerful, as fast as an astronaut, but since it can reprogram the machine, the human mind is superior to HAL, on the other hand. But the internet machine is now “remapping the neural circuit, reprogramming the memory” (Carr 326) of his mind and other people’s minds, as the author noted. The author saw that people do not spend time thinking and getting pure knowledge from their viewpoint, they will still rely on the internet and that will lead him to take opinions from people. In this case, Carr clarified the concept of some things, and at some point, I agree with him and some do not.

The positive thing is, Google is changing the world, and that’s the reality. We know the world is evolving as intelligent people. It’s not how it used to be, and people are constantly searching for the best way to get information or learn from several opportunities. The modern revolution like Google made the World Digital Library not easy to achieve. The clever thing about this digital library is that it can be obtained with only a simple press, which saves time. In addition, electronic knowledge allows you to be sustainable and protects the environment. The digital library, therefore, has a positive impact on people’s experiences as they can now offer ratings, reviews, commentaries, and suggestions. The downside is that the mind is now less able to focus and process information with quick and fast access. The mind absorbs information as soon as the Internet spreads it.

The efforts to access data are minimized by Google. Today people don’t have time to read library books, or to go to the library to buy books, particularly if they are far away. Time is fast-moving, and people like students or businesses have to work quickly to reach deadlines. The best way to find details, like Ebook or internet site or YouTube, is by using my laptop; I can’t do without my laptop. I can do that quickly. I didn’t have to try to purchase this book until I was old enough to drive, because my teacher told me to buy a book from the distant library, what I had done was to use Google as an EBook and I found the Amazon book. This decreased the initiative.

If people rely on the views of other people on Google, they will lose their ability to think creatively. In the post, Carr has an example of this: ‘I’m not the only one. When I mention my issues with reading to friends and acquaintances, most literary types say they have similar experiences ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“DOI”:”10.1111/j.1744-7984.2008.00172.x”,”ISSN”:”00775762″,”abstract”:”What the internet is doing to our brains”,”author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”carr”,”given”:”nicholas”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””}],”container-title”:”Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education”,”id”:”ITEM-1″,”issue”:”2″,”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2008″]]},”page”:”89-94″,”publisher”:”The Atlantic Monthly Group”,”title”:”Is Google Making Us Stupid?”,”type”:”article-journal”,”volume”:”107″},”uris”:[“http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=e5683a96-03d8-3227-8eee-53de9667a245″]}],”mendeley”:{“formattedCitation”:”(carr)”,”plainTextFormattedCitation”:”(carr)”},”properties”:{“noteIndex”:0},”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”}(carr). He also cites Bruce Friedman, a regular medical computer blogger, who says, “I have almost completely lost the ability to read and absorb a lengthy article on the internet or in print now” (Carr 327). We can appreciate the facts of how Google and the internet have shaped his peers, but at the same time they went easily to several concepts, and eventually, they didn’t use their full capacity of logical thought to construct the ideas. This observation is what Carr says Socrates worried about thousands of years ago when people started to rely more on listening than reading about written records. Today, Carr sees the behaviors of people change because they don’t touch the paper or use the writing to note the details, and that’s why people lose the habit of thinking to generate the idea. With the click of a button, all the information is available and comes to the person in short bursts of energy. Titbits of information are easily processed and used, rather than huge folders of it.

We have to sit down and go over the specifics when we read a novel. We turn the pages and can get caught in the story or the details. We usually find it relaxing to sit somewhere and take the time to learn. This method gets the mind in the mood to find information and process it. People have imaginative minds that connect with words and ideas. But we don’t sit in a quiet position because we use Google and the internet and we don’t need a lot of time. Our mind wants fast data, so we click, click, before we read what we want to find out. We don’t process the data like we did when we sat down to read in a comfortable spot. When we click on the Internet, we do not indulge in deep thinking.

People who recognize how they benefitted from the Internet also refute Carr’s claims that Google and the Internet change the way people read and think. The way they process information has not changed either. The Internet has been helping thousands to get closer to what they need for the longest time. More specific search results containing the information users require can be found via the Internet and using search engines such as Google and Bing. In comparison to the traditional methods of researching libraries, where you have to examine several books and yet end up without success, research is facilitated and faster. With thousands of available information, readers will experience it overwhelmingly if they must read every word before going into other sources. Moreover, it is humanly difficult to read the thousands of search results, so the only way to find relevant information is to skim through posts. However, this does not mean that it altered the way we read and thought. We learn about reading comprehension and speed reading in school, and that’s what we do while browsing through journals.

Nevertheless, inclined to assume that people are not made dumber by Google and the Internet. We may not read every word as we used to in the past, but it is not fair to say that skimming through information affects the way we process information, or what he calls power surfing. We may have changed our types and habits of reading, but we maintain the same methods of processing that we used in the past and probably have even built on them to cope with the amount of knowledge on the Internet. When it comes to using modern technologies, people are in control of themselves. The changes that take place are ways of adapting to rapidly evolving developments and is very much like how people in the 18th century coped with economic and technological changes. Carr’s conclusions are thus nothing more than speculations and are more likely in fact to be experiential.

In conclusion, the author has the same true opinion about the Internet and Google change people’s lives, making them lazy and dissipated. Carr refers to HAL as he believes that intelligence is like artificial intelligence if we are more relying on artificial intelligence. He does not think people can think for themselves. Maybe, I believe Google makes people more intelligent since they are always able to find information when they want it. Due to the different levels of thought that make people rethink their idea. Google also always develops the IT system to enhance and limit reach, for example, if I only have one million pieces of information coming from the world, but you can choose which targets, for instance, academic searches or public informationADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“abstract”:””Dave