It is known that societies reliance on Dr. Google and the touch of a button has encouraged us to skim through text instead of carefully reading and analyzing the text without thinking for yourself. This speaks to what Carr states “that having access to infinite knowledge is making us stupid. We are not thinking for ourselves and relying on a machine. We are not reading rather skimming through article, and books to get to the point of the story. The article specifies about Carrs experience of having focusing issues. Carr believes that it is taking him longer to read because he can’t stay focus. He has an issue with the fact that we read more but not longer so focusing has become a major problem because of technology and Dr. Google.
Having immediate access to a search engine we loose our sense of thinking and reading process. The reader is not thinking the way they use to think. He states that while reading he no longer gets caught up in the narrative instead his concentration starts to drift after two or three pages. One looses focus and the way society once read a book, novel, article which used to come easy is now a constant struggle to stay focused. Although, Dr. Google has saved the life of our long day because we no longer have to go to a public library and sit there for hours it still making us stupid. Some of the pros is that we save time and it makes life easier to work from home.
It is known that Dr. Google knows it and as soon as you debate someone on a topic they immediately turn to Google to prove their point. However I believe that many people totally rely on a search button or link to gather information without the thought process. Carr argues that “speech is an innate ability that stems from the brain structure, reading is conscious and taught.” This is true because when we are reading we have to read for understanding and the use of google is just feeding us information while also monitoring the information they rendering to us. This s not that difficult to understand because they just want to keep us stupid and affecting how we think. Our brains need to be nurtured and not fed information. We need to learn to think and analyze for ourselves how and what we are reading. I for one rely on google for everything but recently have been reading more because I find that many people I know have even gone to the extent to self diagnose themselves instead of going to a doctors office.
While having access to the internet as a secondary source is great, one should never rely on it as a primary source. Many people (including myself) have become so dependent of the resources on the internet we are not realizing that the internet is actually making us stupid and slowing our brains. For example, Carr explains that Bruce Friedman who blogs regularly about computers and medicine says that google has “altered his mental habits,” and explains by saying “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print.” He blames the internet for his inability to read for a long period of time. I find that to be dangerous to our minds because we are no longer thinking for ourselves or reading for understanding. We must also understand that this is exactly what the media, technology, and the internet wants to do to us. How the internet monitors the information they render to us is harmful to our brains and keeping us stupid is googles every intentions.
To conclude, I want to say that google is a good form of resource and information, but we can not rely on google as a primary source. We must also nourish our brain by training it to think and staying focus for a longer period of time.
