Is Google Making Us Stupid

The main argument the author, Nicholas Carr, is trying to make is the fact that Google is making us less focused and reducing our ability to really read and get into different works of text. Carr describes the internet as reducing our ability to analyze and stay focused on a work of text. He describes the modern day Internet as a way to get information very quick and skimming over instead of going in depth. Carr believes it is changing our mind process to getting the information as fast as possible then moving on to what is next. He uses Socrates to back up his argument and Carr describes literacy as the ability to adapt to times to communicate and go about living our lives. Carr’s work of text is very similar to Socrates because in both works they are describing the Internet as changing the way we are thinking. Both sources believe that the Internet is hurting our ability to read and go in depth to large works because of how fast we are getting information now. In my opinion it is changing the way we think but this new way of thinking to me is extremely effective and beneficial because we are getting the info in a fast reliable way. Through doing this we are getting our work done at a much faster rate and becoming a more technologically advanced society everyday.