Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

The main argument in this article is that because information is so easy for us to access now, we are losing the ability to sit and read things and soak up information. People are getting lazy and our minds are constantly wandering if we sit and try to read something that is longer than a couple paragraphs.

The author, like a growing number of people, relies on the Internet to gain quick information. This has caused a problem with people staying focused on one thing. He starts to quickly skim the text and get the basic information rather than try to understand it fully.

I think literature in this article is described as “Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply”.

The definitions from the two articles are very similar. They are both about reading information and not just taking it for face value, but digging deeper and seeing the whole meaning.

People have formed new forms of reading. We “power browse” and quickly skim through articles and look at the titles. People want things immediately now.

The author uses Nietzsche, Frederick Taylor, and the main goal of Google to support his claims.

It is very effective evidence because the sources are popular and reliable. It backs up all of his claims about the brain and how technology has changed it.

“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 topic matters because we do not want to give up the intelligence we have just because of laziness or because we can rely on computers to do things for us. The author does also say that not everything that comes with technology is bad and that we should be “skeptical of my skepticism”. But we also cannot deny that technology has “dumbed” people down in some ways.