Blog #8 Is Google Making Us Stupid?

In this illustration, Nicolas Carr suggests that with all of the wide information on the internet, he is unable to engage into things that he used to. Carr describes that he can no longer just find himself deep in a book, that he always feels that certain drift. He becomes fidgety and can't concentrate on the things that he used to. He explains that over the last few years the internet has been a godsend to him as a writer. Carr says that, the things that used to take him days of research are now condensed into minutes on the computer. So is Carr suggesting that the internet and and such resources a bad thing? I don't believe he is siding with either. In my opinion there are negatives and positives to both sides. He says that it has just changed people and the way they think. Some of us have become lazy, and will hardly skim a few paragraphs. Yet with text messaging and phones, we have certainly started to read more. In the last paragraph Carr says, "As we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence." Finally he comes to the conclusion that the world is present day is making us similar to robots. Which comes to the ultimate question "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" It's making us much more reliant and anxious. "Oh I'll just look it up" or, "I don't know the answer so I'll go find it" a very common language of ours.