Reading Response - Is Google Making Us Stupid 

Fabrice Tshiyoyi Banyingela

Sister Michelle Donner

Writing & Reasoning

6 May 2021

Reading Response - Is Google Making Us Stupid

In his essay entitled “Is Google Making Us Stupid” which is more opinion based than just an argument, Nicholas Carr expressed concerns about the danger the internet will represent in the near future by eroding his reading skill when he said “Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages… the deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle”, he said.

Carr made several claims such as the Internet is making us lazy with a shorter attention span and therefore he experienced humans becoming slower at reading and writing. At some point, I agree with him that the Internet distracts us from reading and concentrating, but besides that through the Internet, we can get information as fast as before, perform online banking, attend online classes, work from home … Carr goes too far to say that the internet is invading our brains (which is like plastic), messing them up and turning us into robots.  

Carr’s argument is ineffective because at no given opportunity he managed to provide reliable sources in order to effectively support his claim that the Internet is changing the way one thinks. He wrote about Scott Karp, who has been brilliant about reading for many years, but now with the arrival of the internet, he finds it very difficult to read a book.   

In my capacity as a Software Engineer to be, I understand that they will be people who will support Carr’s point of view, nevertheless I believe that the internet brings the world as one and fastens the pace of wanting information.

Works cited

Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” https://www.theatlantic.com/, The Atlantic, Web, 5 May 2021

 Wikipedia. “Google Search?”  https://en.wikipedia.org/, Wikipedia, Web, 5 May 2021

 

 


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