Is Google Making Us Stupid, a responce

Is Google Making Us Stupid?
By Emily Levelle

Nicholas Carr wrote an article called “Is Google Making us Stupid?” were he talks about the mind altering effects that the internet can have on the human brain. Carr explains how the brain uses different parts when using a computer then it does when reading or learning something new. And how over time it can make activities that require real concentration to do like sitting down and reading something in-depth difficult. Because the brain has become so use to multitasking all the time between things like emailing and face book. It becomes hard to focuses on one thing when your so use to doing many at a time. My group focused on the part of the essay that talked about a man named Fredrick Winslow Taylor. This man took a stop watch and timed employees working in factories. Then he and tried to break down break down each job in to a sequence of small steps, then tested out a bunch of different ways to get it done more efficiently. The employs claimed that these new way’s of working, “ turned them into little more than automatons”, but apparently despite there disagreement productivity in factories soared. This was more then a hundred years after the invention on the steam engine yet not until Taylor came along did anyone truly understand how to use this power for maximum efficiency, the tight choreography that was as he liked to put it his, “system” made that sort of efficiency possible. Yet it looks like even today Taylor’s system is still very much with us, it still remains the main ethic of the industrial manufacturing industry. And now because of the steadily growing power that the computer engineers and soft wear programmers hold over our intellectual lives, Taylor’s ethics seems to be governing the realm of mind as well. The internet is nothing more then a machine that is designed for efficiency, made to find the, “ one best method” to perform or work out for us the thing we have come to know as “knowledge work.” What would happen if we give up all are power to a machine that is programmed mainly to find the best form of efficiency. I mean at this rate with all focuses put on efficiency and making more, has anyone stopped and bothered to ask why? Just because we can make more doesn’t mean that we necessarily should. Making more means we have to buy more and buying more means we need to make more. It has become a vicious cycle that seems impossible to break yet if we take a step back and realizes we don’t need so much then all the need for efficiency stops and the entire way we work and sell would change hopefully for the better but we will never know if we don’t give it a try.