Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr
Write an essay disagreeing or agreeing with Carr's theory. He argues that Google and the Internet, more generally is hurting our ability to read "deeply'. I agree because people rely to much on the internet and don't want to actually think. And you can write about why you agree with him and about the article.
Sample Answer
Since the dawn of technology, the concern about the effects it had on the human mind has always been present. For instance, Socrates expressed this concern in his “Phaedrus” when he wrote about how the invention of books makes the soul forgetful. He warned that the new generation of readers was blindly putting their trust in external written sources and that the library was responsible for promoting this notion. The same sentiments that were pronounced by classical thinkers like Socrates have been echoed by Nicholas Carr with relevance to the technology and its advancements to communication surfaces whereupon google and internet are found. This discussion will portray and deeply discuss the impacts of internet and the actual thinking as much of its conformity with Carr’s ideology.
