Nicholas Carr writes in The Atlantic about what he fears the Internet may be doing to our brains. Read Is Google Making Us Stupid? and decide for yourself. Do the advantages of the Internet outweigh the potential dangers?
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i thought the article was very confusing and i didn't get all of it. i think that the fact someone thinks a search engine is making people stupid is a bit ridiculous since it would be virtually impossible for someone to know all the information on google therefore it cant be that we are becoming less smart because something is helping us out.
ReplyDeleteI didn't find the article interesting, I thought he was going to give us reasons why google is making us stupid. All he did was say that people don't want to read lengthy texts anymore. I thought the article was much longer than it needed to be. Google is a great invention that pretty much everyone can access and benefit from.
ReplyDeleteThis article was very long and hard to retain all the information. This is exactly what they talked about in the article. It seems hard to keep an attention span while reading for long amounts of time. However, I do not believe that google is making us dumb. It doesn't seem right that a search engine could have the ability to do this. The article will take many readings before I fully understand it enough to write a paper on it.
ReplyDeleteThis article was very long and it was almost difficult to pay attention. Like Devan said he didn't talk about reasons why Google is making us stupid, just how people do not want to read anything lengthy anymore. I find this to be true, but I'm not exactly sure it's because of Google, it may or may not be. I think that having the Internet and easy access to any information that we want has made us less motivated. So, maybe in some degree it is making us stupid, but the reasons presented in this article don't fully attain that.
ReplyDeleteThe length of the article made it very hard to follow. I don't think that google is making us stupid. Google is making information more readily available for us to use at our disposal. We no longer have to search through books to find what we need. Yes, people don't want to read through long articles to find the information they need, but with search engines, time looking for usable material is cut in half. Google isn't making us stupid its making us efficient.
ReplyDeleteI believe that this article was very confusing and unfocused. In the beginning it talks about HAL9000 and intelligence, then skips to not being able to read a whole blog and search engines becoming too smart. I think that he should have accounted for the opinions used in his paper when he made it the length that it is. The title is misleading because there is no proof that Google is making people stupid. Yes, people turn to Google for information they may not already know, but you read it and remember it. It's a library of information at the public's fingertips, it would be senseless not to use it.
ReplyDeleteI think this article was very long, which made it very hard to pay attention too. I thought that the author would give reasons why Google was making us stupid, but never did. I didn't understand his reasoning behind him thinking that Google is making us stupid because search engines just make it easier to find things. It doesn't imply that anyone is stupid for using it, its impossible for everyone to know everything.
ReplyDeleteLike everyone else to be saying this article is very long. I thought some of the points were drawn out to long. However, the article is very true on how google is making us stupid. We no longer read for content we read for speed and only the bold points. We also dont retain information because we dont need to. All you have to do is search it and in seconds you have it. Why memorize it when something else can do it for.
ReplyDeleteI thought that by the article title he was going to tell the reader reasons why google is not a good resource and how it is making us stupid. It seemed though that he did not do that and just rambled. The article was also very long and hard to keep my attention on it. Even though people need to be reading more, google does help people find answers for projects, etc. a lot quicker than it would beto go page to page to find an answer.
ReplyDeleteAlthough many people do not like this article because of the length I actually do see where the author is coming from. I have never actually thought about this point before but after reading this I do see his point. Search engines make it too easy for people of all ages to look things up with little to no work and even then they do not read anything they usually just skim. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the pleasure of search engines, all I am saying is after reading this I think he makes an interesting point.
ReplyDeleteI feel that this artical was too long to keep my attention. I found myself drifting off and thinking about other things because of its length. Although, I do understand what the author is saying. Using search engines today has become a little too easy and now people only have to quickly search a topic and take a quick look at some articles instead of having to really search and read all the way through to find what they are looking for. Even though I do understand the author's point, but I still feel that the article lacks excitement that will make the reader keep reading and is too long for people to stay interested.
ReplyDeleteI actually thought that this article was very interesting. Yes it was very long and sort of repeated itself a lot, but it still had some good information. I guess the reason I liked it is because I am guilty of what the author is saying. I find it hard to read things that are over two pages long. If we didn't read this article together in class I probably wouldn't have read it just because of my initial reaction to the length. I am glad I did read it though because I learned something that seems like it is almost obvious. Most of peoples' interest in reading has declined significantly. So I think that the Internet does play a role in that cause.
ReplyDeleteI find the article to also be very confusing and too long. Why preach about not wanting to reason lenghty texts when he too has one of his own? Google: it is not something that dumbs people down (how could it), it contains a very large amount of information that people use daily. I was unable to folllow much of what he was saying due to it being so long. I lost interest soon into the article. Yes, peoples' interest in reading has declined but I personally feel its not the reading they are uninterested in; it is what they are reading about!
ReplyDeleteThe article proved its point that it is hard to keep your attention on a long article. However I thought it did make a lot of interesting points that are very true. I think that the topic of what I read is what drives me to read it though. I wouldn't want to read a long article in War and Peace unless it was something that I was genuinely interested in. He does make a good point in the fact that we now read more for efficiency than for knowledge. If I had to write a lengthy english paper about something I would probably not read too in-depth but more skimming just to get the idea and to finish the paper.
ReplyDeleteI thought the article was right. I believe the author. The internet has made things so much easier for us. I used to read so much when I was little, and now if I need to find something or know something I can just look it up on the internet. I also believe it has made people lazy and not as willing to learn about new things. Yes, the article was kind of long, but he did prove many good points.
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