I agree with Carr having advanced technology in our daily lives is affecting the way we learn and read. When Carr states that having access to infinite knowledge is making us stupid i think that Carrs is not necessarily calling us stupid what he is implying is that because we have easy ways to access informations and answers we are relying more on technology to do the work for us and not giving time to do it ourselves. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Carr’s states “For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded.” this example shows that having advanced technologies makes it easier to find informations or answers that we need This is making us lazy and not really understand the problems that were given to us having this information makes us seem smart by answering it correctly but in reality we are just trying to get it over with and not really understand whats going on.
I don’t think there are problems with having immediate access to informations and answers. But because we have easy access we are loosing the will to do problems ourself, the ability to think outside the box, etc having immediate access is convenient but in return it makes us more lazy or have the curiosity about anything. I am also a part of this having easy access makes me lazy for example i use many softwares google has like grammarly which corrects my work as i type making me less interested to learn new vocabularies because grammarly already does it for me. I also have another software called speechify which reads the documents to me because of how lazy i have become.
The pros of this is that having immediate access helps us look for informations faster, research problems for school, research places to go to eat or go out, help us find about specific medicines etc. this makes our lives easier because all our answers is online and all we have to do is search it making it easy and fast. But because of this the cons are we tend to get more lazy and rely more on technology for example i rely on google for informations about questions from school, or use softwares google has to help me read and write this shows that because of technology we all have changed and we all rely on technology wether we want to or not.
I think both. Internet is giving us easier access to news or information about whats happening all over the world and because of this its helping us realize whats going on, are there any new discoveries being made, are there any new experiments, etc but its also melting our brains away because we are relying on technology too much i used to read and write and learn new things from the mistakes i made but now everything is online if i want to sound smart and look for new words i can search that up, if i want to write essays there are softwares that can help, if i feel lazy to read there are softwares that reads for you and i also currently use that software
I want to say that I totally agree with you because the internet is monitoring the information that is being rendered. I mean information is constantly being censored and we just want the easy way out and instead of reading for understanding we are reading to get to the point. That can be damaging and melting our brains.
I agree with you that there is nothing wrong with immediate access to information, but it does make people too lazy to think and innovate. But I think sometimes software improves us in many ways because it is the best teacher when there is no one to teach you and correct your mistakes, for example, that software you mentioned called speechify, I think it might help me by teaching me the correct pronunciation of some vocabulary I don’t know, but of course, it is still best if you can do without it because the convenience it brings makes it impossible for people to learn new things.
Hi Yeshi (+ company), I really like that you guys tied in applications the way you did. Yeshi, I could see your perspective on why Grammarly might be hindering your ability to learn. Still, I could reverse that narrative and say that having Grammarly highlight errors for you might make it easier to remember certain writing conventions. As far as Speechify, it could be more helpful for some people to learn through audio. These are all things that could be utilized in very productive ways, so does it come down to how the user chooses to engage? Or is it simply natural? Good job, all!