Is Google Making Us Stupid?

  In the article “Is Google Making us Stupid” Carr makes a few interesting points. He claims that now we cannot possible think in deep thought like we were once able too. We don’t get lost in a book like we had in previous generations. He implies that emotionally, technology and the internet have taken away the joy of getting lost in a story, but it also has made our life more advanced.  He uses a previous example of the printing press. Although it advanced society in a great deal, it may have posed a major threat because now information was being able to be multiplied and dispersed all over. The same kind of thing is happening with technology and the internet.

                He also uses another example of the mechanical clock and how that related to society. When the clock was invented, people used the metaphor “your brain is like clockwork”. Whereas now, we say “your brain is like a computer.” These types of similies/metaphors are important to take note of because it implies what is advanced in our society. Our brains aren’t neccesarily working as computers, but rather we have become as advanced as they are.

                Lastly, an argument quoted in Carr’s article is that deep/critical thinking comes with deep reading. This may seem controversial because we may not neccesarily need to be critically reading to be critically thinking. Anyways, I think that Carr was relating to an audience of an older generation, rather than a younger one because of the fact that he speaks about an emotional change and loss that we do not have anymore in relation to books and stories because of technology.