Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Nicholas Carr explains throughout his article that technology has started to twist and manipulate how our brains habits work. He states that because of things such as the internet, we are starting to lose concentration on the original task we started with. Have you ever found yourself researching a certain topic and within a minute you are sucked into Facebook/YouTube or a link that was off to the side? This is what Carr is talking about. We all go online at some point to find an answer, and end up looking at something completely different. I believe in what Carr is throwing out on the table. Just a few weeks before I read this article I chose to limit my time on the internet and forced myself to sit back a read a book every so often.

Carr, N. (2008, August). The atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/