"Is Google Making Us Stupid?

In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, Carr asserts that technology has given people the opportunity to briefly skim multiple posts without taking in any of the information. Carr declares, “[The media supplies] the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles” (par. 4). Carr shows that he is not the only one who believes that the internet is making our reading habits to be pathetic, he sums up Wolf’s thoughts, “Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace” (par. 5) Carr uses multiple examples from other people like Wolf, to back up his claim. Carr also expands his thinking process and implies that computers are just doing thinking for us. He declares, “The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive” (par. 26)