Is google making us stupid.

Nicholas Carr's article "Is Google Making us Stupid?" mainly focused on technology and how it affects us today. Carr refers to how he began to notice after his inclined use of technology it has become harder for him to stay focused on a book for a long period of time. Deep reading became a struggle for him. He has also found some of his friends were feeling the same way. People us the internet to obtain information quick and easy rather than researching for books and articles in the library. Studies have shown that people who do visit websites rarely read more than the first or second page. Have people looked to the internet to escape deep reading? Carr states, "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski" (2). Carr is explaining how he used to do research very in-depth, but now because the internet makes researching so much faster and easier Carr just skims the surface looking for information that he needs. This is most likely true for many people. The internet has in fact replaced deep reading. The loss of deep thinking isn’t the only thing the internet has changed. Carr goes on to explain how the internet and the type of reading we do has changed the way our brains think. We used to think that the brain was fully developed in your early twenties. Now we realize this isn’t true. The brain is always changing; altering itself. James Olds states, "[It] is very plastic" (4). our brains ultimately begin to take on characteristics of the tools we use. So the human brain is altering itself to be like the computer. The computer is so many tools wrapped up into one. It is a calculator, radio, TV, calendar, among others. Is this why our brains are beginning to see quantity and immediacy over quality?