In Nick Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nick Carr goes on about how he thinks using the mega search engine Google is tinkering with his mind. He explains while reading his literature that he does he feels like he drifts away after a few pages and sort of looses interest in the material. That his concentration is just wearing off and he’s not able to read articles and large amounts of text like he used to. In this article Carr repeatedly makes references to one of Stanley Kubrick’s good films 2001: A Space Odyssey, where in one particular part the computer kills off the crew when the malfunctioning machine’s memory starts to be eliminated. Nick compares this to his memory being slowly taken away so to speak by Google. He feels that Google is making us stupid, because of the fact that anyone with basic computer knowledge a computer and the internet could easily access brief, short, to-the-point articles, spark notes or news in a matter of no time. With all that technology at your finger tips it’s even hard to stay focused when you’re reading something online constantly clicking links and such. Mr. Carr uses an example that I like in particular, about Fredrick Winslow Taylor and how he created an algorithm. Well inside Google headquarters they practice using Taylor’s methods but they center it on how people search and seek out information on the web. I think Nick Carr’s claim that Google is making us stupid is important to everyone at any comprehension level because acquiring any type of knowledge or even wisdom is vastly changing because of the ways in which we quest for information. Here is a quote that I think really brings out what Carr is saying and reminding us in this article, “In the world of 2001, people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine. That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.”