The internet and it's effect on us

Overall this article is telling us about how Google is making us not as intellectually sound. Carr is telling us that all this quick information and this world of quick responses is actually making us machine like as he calls it. We aren’t able to sit down and read a long book with as much ease. We are in this fast and quick world where when you want something or need something the best way to go about doing it is the most efficient way. Carr talks about how the internet is making our thinking process altered to gather information real quick instead of actually analyzing and developing your own theory on the answers that are given. Carr talks about Socrates and how he thought the same thing when writing was becoming popular. Carr thinks very similar to Socrates but about computers completely taking over. He say’s we eventually will become machine like with brains smarter than our own. The mental habits for us as well have completely changed which Carr thinks to seem is a bad thing as we are becoming so fast paced expecting things to happen fast. Carr backs his article up with a study from Harvard, as well as frequent blogger about the internet Bruce Friedman. Carr also refers to various books talking about different topics that can relate to the computer like changes we are going through. Overall I believe the evidence is effective yet for me it doesn’t really make me think that by getting our information in a swift pace we are becoming not as intellectually sound. Although we may not be as adept to reading long novels we are getting our information in a very fast way making us even smarter through all the time we save and the overall ease of information in such a fast pace. The article I believe does a good job of answering the so what question in the final lines of the article “as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.” The quote pretty much outlines his whole article and answers the question of “so what?” Overall Carr writes a creative article that is well thought out and has good sources but for me I just do not think this will be an issue with our generation getting information so fast. I think we are getting smarter through the use of fast and swift information.