Media isn't actually a "thing." It has the same etymological root as "medium"--the size between "small" and "large" as well as "psychic medium." Media, in other words, has no real substance of its own. It's the thing that's in between speaking and hearing; transmission and reception.
By way of articles, studies, and a couple of polls and links, this blog examines the significance of media in American culture. Post your thoughts after the jump.
Is Google Making Us Stupid Response The article seemed not to focus more on us becoming stupid but that the internet and Google have been altering how we learn. I do not think Google makes us stupid at all. The article says that we tend to skim rather than read nowadays, which personally I wouldn’t know too much about. As a child of the internet age, I grew up this way so I couldn’t really compare to a pre-internet way of reading. I try to read the questions on mastering chemistry and I get 4 words in and then stop and need to start over. “Use the activity series.” “Use the.” “Use the activity series of metals.” “Use the activity series of metals (Table 4.3) to predict” “Use the activity series of metals (Table 4.3) to predict the outcome of each of the following reactions. If no reaction occurs, answer ‘No reaction.’” That reading from my mind and it can be really annoying. Do I think Google made me this way, no. It probably stems from my desire to not want to do chemistry homework. When reading a long article like “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, I don’t start over all the time. If I lose my place I keep going and try to fit in context clues for the rest of the details. When something ceases to make sense still, only then will I reread the paragraph. Every subsequent read tends to get more of the information not because I’m moving slower, but ill skip different words and read different words and they get rearranged with my previous skim memory. I did notice something though that makes me feel a bit childish. I was able to read this article much easier than the other ones like “The Braindead Megaphone” by George Saunders. And it’s simply because of the size of the text. I think if they are right about the internet’s changing how we read; it makes us only want to read so many words per three inches then move on. So having bigger font size will help these complaining authors read their books. After all, bigger font helps kids learn how to read for a reason, why can’t essays just be 14pt font. I played around with the font of this essay and tried to read it as fast as I could and found at about 36pt font, I could read faster and more accurately but at the cost of needing to scroll while reading. This would obviously not be an environmental friendly solution.
It’s hard to say whether Google is making us “stupid” or not. I think that the argument could go either way. At the beginning of the article, Carr mentions that he finds it hard for him to concentrate on long pieces of writing anymore. I can definitely relate to this. Although I never really enjoyed reading for school, I used to read a book of my choice all the time. I read from a book almost every night before I went to bed but I don’t think I have picked up a book, by choice, since middle school. I can’t concentrate for that long and my attention span is much shorter. I often find myself doing almost everything in little bits of time. I can’t focus on one activity for too long or I start to feel anxious. I have always been like this a little bit but thinking about it now, I’ve never had such a short attention span. Carr states that we are so used to clicking from one hyperlink to another and he is right. I find that even while I’m doing research if I can’t find my answer within about 3 minutes, I will try another source. He also makes several references to new technologies throughout the years that have made humans less intelligent. I disagree with these statements because although there is some truth to what he is saying, he does not talk about the advantages we have gained, especially with the Web. Google may have shortened our attention spans and caused us to memorize less but it has also expanded our opportunities. With all of this information that can come so quickly, we can spend less time trying to find small details to a problem and more time finding a better solution. With so much information at the tip of our fingers, we can expand on the solutions we already have. Like Carr said, we don’t spend so much time in libraries looking at books trying to find information, but that isn’t necessarily and bad thing. Now, we can spend more time in labs trying to find solutions to large problems using resources such as the internet.
Is google making us stupid? In short, yes, but no. Think about it from this standpoint; the internet may make it harder for us to pay attention to long winded texts such as novels and almanacs, but it also allows us to find information about things that we would otherwise have no access to. So, yes, you may have trouble remembering when you read your last novel, but you can easily access and read the entire declaration of independence in a couple clicks, rather than venturing to your neighborhood library, which would take a substantially longer amount of time. So yes, we, as a society may be becoming less able to retain information in large quantities, but we have also become much more resourceful and mindful in how we store and access this information as a population. I believe that this is certainly advantageous for a number of reasons. First, if you were not educated in the past, you were sol (sort of out of luck). Whereas if you do not have the education you desire today, you can easily find online courses, or even directions to nearby libraries and other educational facilities. Secondly, how helpful this ease of access is when it comes to modern medicine. In the past century, vast advancements in medicine have proven to help the lives of those born with various medical conditions, and the development of the internet has hastened the process even more. Lastly, developments in technology can actually save us in the future. In the past decade, we have made many attempts to conserve resources; from the use of email rather than post, to creating digital versions of entire textbooks and encyclopedias, saving hundreds of thousands of pages, and thus trees, per year. All in all the answer is yes, google may be making us “stupid”, but the benefits of the modern day internet out way the cons of decline in our attention span to long texts in many more ways than you and I can count.
In the article, Nicholas Carr’s main point was that the Internet has shifted the way we think from long, deep thinking to a quick skimming of everything we read. He believes that this new way of thinking actually makes us less intelligent and less capable than we used to be. I disagree. The Internet allows us to learn more quickly than ever before, which makes us more efficient. Previously if you wanted any sort of trivial fact you would have had to find an encyclopedia and look up exactly what you wanted to know. Now you simply have to type it into Google and instantly you can find out anything you want. In the time you saved from the old way of thinking, you can learn something else. In other words, Google has made us more capable of being intelligent even though we choose to be lazy with how we remember things. Since all of this knowledge is always at our fingertips there is no reason for us to remember it unless we have to. I chose to go a day without technology on the Thursday that we did not have class. In order to make it as painless as possible I stayed up as late as I could so I would wake up late. Not being able to use my phone or computer actually helped me because I had a test that day and I was much more focused on studying without my most common distractions. The only problem I had was not knowing the time without my phone so I did have to wear a digital watch for the day. After my test was over I got dinner alone because I could not get in contact with my friends. When I got back to my room I did my homework and went to bed relatively early because I had nothing else to do. Throughout the day I did not feel any less intelligent without the Internet, just much more secluded.
There is no doubt that Google effects the way we think and how we obtain information but I don’t think that it is necessarily making us stupid, in the traditional definition of the word. To me Google is a great way to learn about anything that tickles your fancy. However, Google is almost changing the way that humans think. Instead of diving into a novel and really understanding it, people are more concerned with how much they can get out of it. “I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do.” This quote really struck me because it shows how people can be more concentrated on how much knowledge they can ecru instead of the type of knowledge. In other words, people nowadays are more like walking fact books. Google makes all this possible. As for the day without screens I think I did pretty well. I chose Sunday as the day I would try this experiment. Sunday was the logical choice because the Bills game wasn’t on. I must admit that I did use my phone once or twice, only to make phone calls of course. I spent most of my day doing homework and just lounging around. Despite what people may think about this no technology rule, it really isn’t that bad. The part I liked the most didn’t come from what I was doing in place of regular activities, it was what I wasn’t doing. I wasn’t checking Twitter or any other social media networks, and I wasn’t just spending mindless time looking random things up on Google (see above). Overall I found that I was much more relaxed and rested. It seems as though maybe technology (i.e. phones, TVs, etc.) may be the cause of peoples stress or anxiety. I think now that I see the good it can bring, I will most likely spend less time on screens and more time on something productive.
Reading “Is Google Making Us Stupid” I confirmed some ideas that I had before reading this. Over the last few years I had realized that my memory was not nearly as good as my parents or other adults that I knew, and I was thinking recently that it had something to do with the quick and easy exposure to knowledge that I have using a search engine like google. Carr confirms this idea and makes me wonder if more people thought this as well. Carr says “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.” This idea makes me think that we no longer see memorization as a important trait. Since we can just look anything up again in a matter of seconds why would we waste our time remembering it? So google is making us stupid because we now lack the memory and all we know is how to get knowledge, we do not have it. When people had to look things up in encyclopedias and take a large portion of their day to get information, they stressed remembering it so that they did not have to waste another day finding the information again. Also I have realized that people now a days need quick information and entertainment. Carr states “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy.” This shows that being able to get quick and concise answers makes us lose our attention span. Also, this demands that when we write something or say something we cannot go on and on with details which do not pertain to the moral or outcome, because now, we demand things to be quick and easy. In conclusion google has made the world stupid and we will not be able to think for ourselves if we keep progressing further into easy knowledge.
For the attempt at going a day without technology, it did not go well. I attempted, I woke up made food and started to chat and play board games with my sisters and that took up a good five and a half hours of my day. Then when we finished the board game things went south, one sister had to go run errands and the other decided to watch TV. I fought the urge to sit down and watch with her by going to my room, this turned out to be a even worse idea. In my room there is a television, and Xbox and a lot of games to play. So in short I got bored and played Xbox after six hours of going without technology, kind of sad to see my dependence on my technology for stimuli.
After reading Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” I don’t believe that Google and the internet are making us dumber, all that it has had an impact on is how we learn. Even if some may argue that it has lowered our intelligence I think that it has provided us with a greater amount of sources, and from those sources we are able to read into topics that we want to learn about. In Carr’s second paragraph, he writes how he can feel his mind changing most strongly when he’s reading, and now instead of getting ‘caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument,’ his concentration starts to drift and he begins to look for something else to do. I identify closest with this part of the article, not only do I do this more often than not, but I also know a handful of others who do this also. Honestly, I believe that no matter how I read, whether it’s on paper or on a screen, this will always happen to myself and to others. Before the internet was available or around, people still had trouble focusing on their reading. If you’re not truly interested in what you need to learn about, then you’ll most likely have a hard time bringing yourself to read about it. I feel that this will always affect people, whether we read information on the internet or not. Another point that Carr brings up is how before the internet it took longer to look up information through books. Carr points this out at the bottom of the first page saying, ‘research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.’ I can also relate to this point, because when I was younger my grandmother owned a set of encyclopedias and I would often look up information in them. After a while switching out the books to look up related information started to become a hassle, but now looking up information is quicker and easier by clicking on the hyperlinks. After reading Nicholas Carr’s article and being able to relate it to personal experiences, I still believe that Google and the internet aren’t making us stupid or less intelligent.
After reading the passage by Nicholas Carr, I feel a slight bit more self-conscious about my own personal tendencies of procrastination through the use of the internet. One of the things he pointed out is how notifications of emails and messages affect our attention span. Whenever I use my laptop, my social media is linked through it, and it catches my attention immediately when notifications pop up. I constantly find myself bouncing from tab to tab because of broken concentration. I think I’m going to need to shut that app feature off as soon as possible, or learn how to resist checking it. Carr also discusses how he finds himself going from article to article on the internet, and he uses a nice analogy; “Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” The analogy makes a strong point on how his reading habits (along with our habits) have been changed, but I have to disagree with it. The most reading I do is through articles on the internet and in the newspapers, and I very rarely skim over the articles I choose to read. Unless the article is awful, I’ll read it word for word because for some strange reason I carry a small bit of guilt for not reading all of it. I also do the same thing with books if I find the time to read one. I can’t give up on a book after I start reading it because then I feel guilty and uninformed by whatever the author had to say. My final point of interest was Carr’s focus on Google and its attempt to make the “ultimate search engine”. I feel that Google’s push to build artificial intelligence for humans is a truly incredible thing, but only to a point. The internet and Google serve us as information-seeking mediums, but they have made us very, very lazy. In the past, memorization was an essential skill for most people to have and utilize, but now with the internet, we can always look up what we want to know, give the answer, and forget it until we need to look it up again. Carr also touches on how long days in libraries with many books doing research has now been cut down to a matter of seconds with one medium. This newfound laziness is either a good or bad thing, but it would will take some time before we all know that as a fact.
After reading this article it’s easy to see that Carr has some anger towards the internet. In my opinion, this anger isn’t because Google is making us stupid, but rather that Carr has been around a lot longer than I have. He grew up in a time when the internet wasn’t invented yet and books were his substitute for information and entertainment. As he got older and the internet became more prominent, he had to change his ways to adapt to our evolving society. I think that when that change occurred Carr lost a piece of who he was and it made him feel uncomfortable. Since I grew up with this technology, I feel comfortable with it. In the article he starts to get into the fact that we skim read now and it’s harder for us to analyze an article and stay focused. I don’t really agree with that. Sure, we do “surf” the web so to speak, jumping from article to article reading little snippets of information. But that is because technology and society is advancing so fast and now that the world is connected through the internet we are able to witness everything taking place. If we were to use old methods of digesting information, there is no possible way we could see the larger picture of what is actually happening. How could someone possibly say we are becoming more stupid after observing how fast we are advancing as a species. Just like in evolution we are constantly adapting to our changing environment and currently, search engines like Google are fueling us with knowledge to continue to innovate.
Is Google Making Us Stupid Response
ReplyDeleteThe article seemed not to focus more on us becoming stupid but that the internet and Google have been altering how we learn. I do not think Google makes us stupid at all. The article says that we tend to skim rather than read nowadays, which personally I wouldn’t know too much about. As a child of the internet age, I grew up this way so I couldn’t really compare to a pre-internet way of reading. I try to read the questions on mastering chemistry and I get 4 words in and then stop and need to start over. “Use the activity series.” “Use the.” “Use the activity series of metals.” “Use the activity series of metals (Table 4.3) to predict” “Use the activity series of metals (Table 4.3) to predict the outcome of each of the following reactions. If no reaction occurs, answer ‘No reaction.’” That reading from my mind and it can be really annoying.
Do I think Google made me this way, no. It probably stems from my desire to not want to do chemistry homework. When reading a long article like “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, I don’t start over all the time. If I lose my place I keep going and try to fit in context clues for the rest of the details. When something ceases to make sense still, only then will I reread the paragraph. Every subsequent read tends to get more of the information not because I’m moving slower, but ill skip different words and read different words and they get rearranged with my previous skim memory.
I did notice something though that makes me feel a bit childish. I was able to read this article much easier than the other ones like “The Braindead Megaphone” by George Saunders. And it’s simply because of the size of the text. I think if they are right about the internet’s changing how we read; it makes us only want to read so many words per three inches then move on. So having bigger font size will help these complaining authors read their books. After all, bigger font helps kids learn how to read for a reason, why can’t essays just be 14pt font. I played around with the font of this essay and tried to read it as fast as I could and found at about 36pt font, I could read faster and more accurately but at the cost of needing to scroll while reading. This would obviously not be an environmental friendly solution.
It’s hard to say whether Google is making us “stupid” or not. I think that the argument could go either way. At the beginning of the article, Carr mentions that he finds it hard for him to concentrate on long pieces of writing anymore. I can definitely relate to this. Although I never really enjoyed reading for school, I used to read a book of my choice all the time. I read from a book almost every night before I went to bed but I don’t think I have picked up a book, by choice, since middle school. I can’t concentrate for that long and my attention span is much shorter. I often find myself doing almost everything in little bits of time. I can’t focus on one activity for too long or I start to feel anxious. I have always been like this a little bit but thinking about it now, I’ve never had such a short attention span. Carr states that we are so used to clicking from one hyperlink to another and he is right. I find that even while I’m doing research if I can’t find my answer within about 3 minutes, I will try another source. He also makes several references to new technologies throughout the years that have made humans less intelligent. I disagree with these statements because although there is some truth to what he is saying, he does not talk about the advantages we have gained, especially with the Web. Google may have shortened our attention spans and caused us to memorize less but it has also expanded our opportunities. With all of this information that can come so quickly, we can spend less time trying to find small details to a problem and more time finding a better solution. With so much information at the tip of our fingers, we can expand on the solutions we already have. Like Carr said, we don’t spend so much time in libraries looking at books trying to find information, but that isn’t necessarily and bad thing. Now, we can spend more time in labs trying to find solutions to large problems using resources such as the internet.
ReplyDeleteIs google making us stupid? In short, yes, but no. Think about it from this standpoint; the internet may make it harder for us to pay attention to long winded texts such as novels and almanacs, but it also allows us to find information about things that we would otherwise have no access to. So, yes, you may have trouble remembering when you read your last novel, but you can easily access and read the entire declaration of independence in a couple clicks, rather than venturing to your neighborhood library, which would take a substantially longer amount of time. So yes, we, as a society may be becoming less able to retain information in large quantities, but we have also become much more resourceful and mindful in how we store and access this information as a population. I believe that this is certainly advantageous for a number of reasons. First, if you were not educated in the past, you were sol (sort of out of luck). Whereas if you do not have the education you desire today, you can easily find online courses, or even directions to nearby libraries and other educational facilities. Secondly, how helpful this ease of access is when it comes to modern medicine. In the past century, vast advancements in medicine have proven to help the lives of those born with various medical conditions, and the development of the internet has hastened the process even more. Lastly, developments in technology can actually save us in the future. In the past decade, we have made many attempts to conserve resources; from the use of email rather than post, to creating digital versions of entire textbooks and encyclopedias, saving hundreds of thousands of pages, and thus trees, per year. All in all the answer is yes, google may be making us “stupid”, but the benefits of the modern day internet out way the cons of decline in our attention span to long texts in many more ways than you and I can count.
ReplyDeleteIn the article, Nicholas Carr’s main point was that the Internet has shifted the way we think from long, deep thinking to a quick skimming of everything we read. He believes that this new way of thinking actually makes us less intelligent and less capable than we used to be. I disagree. The Internet allows us to learn more quickly than ever before, which makes us more efficient. Previously if you wanted any sort of trivial fact you would have had to find an encyclopedia and look up exactly what you wanted to know. Now you simply have to type it into Google and instantly you can find out anything you want. In the time you saved from the old way of thinking, you can learn something else. In other words, Google has made us more capable of being intelligent even though we choose to be lazy with how we remember things. Since all of this knowledge is always at our fingertips there is no reason for us to remember it unless we have to.
ReplyDeleteI chose to go a day without technology on the Thursday that we did not have class. In order to make it as painless as possible I stayed up as late as I could so I would wake up late. Not being able to use my phone or computer actually helped me because I had a test that day and I was much more focused on studying without my most common distractions. The only problem I had was not knowing the time without my phone so I did have to wear a digital watch for the day. After my test was over I got dinner alone because I could not get in contact with my friends. When I got back to my room I did my homework and went to bed relatively early because I had nothing else to do. Throughout the day I did not feel any less intelligent without the Internet, just much more secluded.
There is no doubt that Google effects the way we think and how we obtain information but I don’t think that it is necessarily making us stupid, in the traditional definition of the word. To me Google is a great way to learn about anything that tickles your fancy. However, Google is almost changing the way that humans think. Instead of diving into a novel and really understanding it, people are more concerned with how much they can get out of it. “I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do.” This quote really struck me because it shows how people can be more concentrated on how much knowledge they can ecru instead of the type of knowledge. In other words, people nowadays are more like walking fact books. Google makes all this possible.
ReplyDeleteAs for the day without screens I think I did pretty well. I chose Sunday as the day I would try this experiment. Sunday was the logical choice because the Bills game wasn’t on. I must admit that I did use my phone once or twice, only to make phone calls of course. I spent most of my day doing homework and just lounging around. Despite what people may think about this no technology rule, it really isn’t that bad. The part I liked the most didn’t come from what I was doing in place of regular activities, it was what I wasn’t doing. I wasn’t checking Twitter or any other social media networks, and I wasn’t just spending mindless time looking random things up on Google (see above). Overall I found that I was much more relaxed and rested. It seems as though maybe technology (i.e. phones, TVs, etc.) may be the cause of peoples stress or anxiety. I think now that I see the good it can bring, I will most likely spend less time on screens and more time on something productive.
Reading “Is Google Making Us Stupid” I confirmed some ideas that I had before reading this. Over the last few years I had realized that my memory was not nearly as good as my parents or other adults that I knew, and I was thinking recently that it had something to do with the quick and easy exposure to knowledge that I have using a search engine like google. Carr confirms this idea and makes me wonder if more people thought this as well. Carr says “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.” This idea makes me think that we no longer see memorization as a important trait. Since we can just look anything up again in a matter of seconds why would we waste our time remembering it? So google is making us stupid because we now lack the memory and all we know is how to get knowledge, we do not have it. When people had to look things up in encyclopedias and take a large portion of their day to get information, they stressed remembering it so that they did not have to waste another day finding the information again. Also I have realized that people now a days need quick information and entertainment. Carr states “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy.” This shows that being able to get quick and concise answers makes us lose our attention span. Also, this demands that when we write something or say something we cannot go on and on with details which do not pertain to the moral or outcome, because now, we demand things to be quick and easy. In conclusion google has made the world stupid and we will not be able to think for ourselves if we keep progressing further into easy knowledge.
ReplyDeleteFor the attempt at going a day without technology, it did not go well. I attempted, I woke up made food and started to chat and play board games with my sisters and that took up a good five and a half hours of my day. Then when we finished the board game things went south, one sister had to go run errands and the other decided to watch TV. I fought the urge to sit down and watch with her by going to my room, this turned out to be a even worse idea. In my room there is a television, and Xbox and a lot of games to play. So in short I got bored and played Xbox after six hours of going without technology, kind of sad to see my dependence on my technology for stimuli.
After reading Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” I don’t believe that Google and the internet are making us dumber, all that it has had an impact on is how we learn. Even if some may argue that it has lowered our intelligence I think that it has provided us with a greater amount of sources, and from those sources we are able to read into topics that we want to learn about. In Carr’s second paragraph, he writes how he can feel his mind changing most strongly when he’s reading, and now instead of getting ‘caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument,’ his concentration starts to drift and he begins to look for something else to do. I identify closest with this part of the article, not only do I do this more often than not, but I also know a handful of others who do this also. Honestly, I believe that no matter how I read, whether it’s on paper or on a screen, this will always happen to myself and to others. Before the internet was available or around, people still had trouble focusing on their reading. If you’re not truly interested in what you need to learn about, then you’ll most likely have a hard time bringing yourself to read about it. I feel that this will always affect people, whether we read information on the internet or not. Another point that Carr brings up is how before the internet it took longer to look up information through books. Carr points this out at the bottom of the first page saying, ‘research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.’ I can also relate to this point, because when I was younger my grandmother owned a set of encyclopedias and I would often look up information in them. After a while switching out the books to look up related information started to become a hassle, but now looking up information is quicker and easier by clicking on the hyperlinks. After reading Nicholas Carr’s article and being able to relate it to personal experiences, I still believe that Google and the internet aren’t making us stupid or less intelligent.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the passage by Nicholas Carr, I feel a slight bit more self-conscious about my own personal tendencies of procrastination through the use of the internet. One of the things he pointed out is how notifications of emails and messages affect our attention span. Whenever I use my laptop, my social media is linked through it, and it catches my attention immediately when notifications pop up. I constantly find myself bouncing from tab to tab because of broken concentration. I think I’m going to need to shut that app feature off as soon as possible, or learn how to resist checking it. Carr also discusses how he finds himself going from article to article on the internet, and he uses a nice analogy; “Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” The analogy makes a strong point on how his reading habits (along with our habits) have been changed, but I have to disagree with it. The most reading I do is through articles on the internet and in the newspapers, and I very rarely skim over the articles I choose to read. Unless the article is awful, I’ll read it word for word because for some strange reason I carry a small bit of guilt for not reading all of it. I also do the same thing with books if I find the time to read one. I can’t give up on a book after I start reading it because then I feel guilty and uninformed by whatever the author had to say. My final point of interest was Carr’s focus on Google and its attempt to make the “ultimate search engine”. I feel that Google’s push to build artificial intelligence for humans is a truly incredible thing, but only to a point. The internet and Google serve us as information-seeking mediums, but they have made us very, very lazy. In the past, memorization was an essential skill for most people to have and utilize, but now with the internet, we can always look up what we want to know, give the answer, and forget it until we need to look it up again. Carr also touches on how long days in libraries with many books doing research has now been cut down to a matter of seconds with one medium. This newfound laziness is either a good or bad thing, but it would will take some time before we all know that as a fact.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this article it’s easy to see that Carr has some anger towards the internet. In my opinion, this anger isn’t because Google is making us stupid, but rather that Carr has been around a lot longer than I have. He grew up in a time when the internet wasn’t invented yet and books were his substitute for information and entertainment. As he got older and the internet became more prominent, he had to change his ways to adapt to our evolving society. I think that when that change occurred Carr lost a piece of who he was and it made him feel uncomfortable. Since I grew up with this technology, I feel comfortable with it. In the article he starts to get into the fact that we skim read now and it’s harder for us to analyze an article and stay focused. I don’t really agree with that. Sure, we do “surf” the web so to speak, jumping from article to article reading little snippets of information. But that is because technology and society is advancing so fast and now that the world is connected through the internet we are able to witness everything taking place. If we were to use old methods of digesting information, there is no possible way we could see the larger picture of what is actually happening. How could someone possibly say we are becoming more stupid after observing how fast we are advancing as a species. Just like in evolution we are constantly adapting to our changing environment and currently, search engines like Google are fueling us with knowledge to continue to innovate.
ReplyDelete