the internet takes over...

I'm beginning to get used to writing on this blog and I think it's pretty interesting to see my fellow classmates' opinions. I think this is a very creative way to express my views on the assigned topics.On to the analysis...

In "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", Nicholas Carr's main thesis discusses the fact that google is corrupting the way we think and process information.Carr blames the internet for not allowing him to concentrate on books. He feels as if his brain has been taken over by the increased popularity of internet sources. He begins this article by referencing an example from the movie " A Space Odyssey". This movie features a supercomputer replacing the thinking process required of the brain. Carr feels that we have been reduced to relying solely on internet sources to gather information instead of finding information in books. We are trying to find the simple way of doing things and Google is supplying us with that easy way out. Carr discusses how he can no longer focus for a long period of time when reading pages of a book but he has no problem spending endless hours researching material on the internet. He states that "deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle" and many people would agree that they feel the same way. Carr points out that when we are searching the internet, we more than often end up searching a topic that is entirely different than the one we began with. Carr discusses that because Google is so user-friendly we are able to search many things at once which leads to us not being able to focus. This being the reason that we are not able to concentrate on one simple task, such as reading a book. This is reasoning behind why Carr can make the point that Google is making us stupid. He feels that our intention spans are shorting due to the right-at-hand information Google supply's for us. Carr's warrant in this article is that everyone uses Google and it has had this effect on everyone. There is no proof to this but I think that there is many people that this hypothesis could be true for.