Summary of "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr

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Summary of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” ~ means of Nicholas Carr
As the internet offers us the benefits of expert and easy knowledge, it is pathetic the brain’s capacity to understand longer articles and books. Carr starts Is Google Making Us Stupid through the closing scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey whenever Dave taking apart the memory circuits that command HAL, the artificial brain of the ship. Carr feels the time he spends online is rewiring his brain. He is ~t any longer able to concentrate long enough to read more than a hardly any paragraphs. Even though the internet is convenient, it seems to be changing the tendency of action our brain takes in information. He feels during the time that though this brain wants to take complaint in the same way the internet disperses it: in hurried streams. Carr compares himself to a dowdy on a jet ski instead of a discerning-sea diver. He is no longer able to converging-point and contemplate. Carr shares the anecdote of two bloggers that are moreover having problems reading and focusing and be moved the internet is responsible. Carr admits that while a recent study at University College London suggests there may be some evidence that the internet is negatively effecting the brain, in ~ degree long-term studies have been done. With the amount of texting forward cell phones and text on the Internet we may be reading more now than when television was the enormous means of media. Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist, believes that the endowment for deep reading that was nurtured by the printing press is being weakened by the way the web puts impressiveness on ease and speed of complaint. Online reading has created “mere decoders of accusation”, leaving a detachment in the version of text.

While language is instinctive, reading must be learned; studies exhibit to that our mental circuitry is mapped differently unable to exist without on the language we are study of books. This suggests these circuits will subsist mapped differently when we learn by way of media and technology as opposed to perusal printed material. Similarly Friedrich...

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Summary of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” ~ dint of. Nicholas Carr

As the internet offers us the benefits of bracing and easy knowledge, it is touching the

brain’s capacity to understand longer articles and books. Carr starts Is Google Making Us Stupid by

the closing scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey at what time Dave taking apart the

memory circuits that superintend HAL, the artificial brain of the ship. Carr feels the time he spends

online is rewiring his brain. He is nay longer able to concentrate long sufficiency to read more than a

few paragraphs. Even though the internet is helpful, it seems to be changing the street our brain

takes in information. He feels as though this brain wants to take accusation in the same way the

internet disperses it: in fast streams. Carr compares himself to a guy on a jet ski instead of a

profound-sea diver. He is no longer talented to focus and contemplate.

Carr shares the chronicle of two bloggers that are in addition having problems reading and focusing

and ~ of the internet is responsible. Carr admits that while a recent study at University College

London suggests there may be some evidence that the internet is negatively effecting the brain,

no long-term studies have been transacted. With the amount of texting adhering cell phones and text on the

Internet we may have existence reading more now than when television was the cardinal means of media.

Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist, believes that the address for deep reading that was

nurtured through the printing press is being weakened through the way the web puts emphasis on ease and

speed of notice. Online reading has created “mere decoders of advice”, leaving a

detachment in the interpretation of text.

While language is impulsive, reading must be learned; studies splendor that our mental

circuitry is mapped differently hanging on the language we are prelection. This suggests these

circuits will subsist mapped differently when we learn via media and technology as opposed to

representation printed material. Similarly Friedrich Nietzsche found that “our writing equipment takes

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