Is Google Making Us Stupid?

          "Is Google Making Us Stupid" written by Nicholas Carr is a persuasive opinion piece on Internet Technology. Carr makes the argument that the Internet technology is changing the 'human condition' both at a biological and and psychological level that will worsen humanity. Throughout the argument, Carr uses ethos throughout this persuasive piece. He uses credible University studies, book authors, and bloggers to say that the way we read is changing, and that deep level thinking in readings is diminishing because the need is simply not there. Carr also uses personal anecdotes of professional writers who have lost the ability to deeply read, and focus on writing. These examples can relate to the problems of many students today. The persuasive argument also presents the counter argument stating that Internet Technology may be embedded in our human core for the better in the future, because it will open up human intelligence into an immeasurable space, where the necessity of a brain might be replaced by something that is robotic which runs in a "algorithm". He wraps up his persuasive argument saying that even if Internet Technology will improve the 'human condition'; that our brains will be replaced something that will process information at an imaginable level, we might lose something that is the essence of what makes us, us, something that can't be lost at any cost.


Article:http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/