Reading Responce # 4

In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr maintains the idea that the internet and computer are causing the people in today’s world to rely too much on the quick and easy search engines that make any information just a click away from anyone who wants to access it. In this article Carr writes, “The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds.” Basically Carr is saying that search engines such a Google are creating information monsters out of us so to speak. Having Google for concise and instant information is making us as internet users very impatient when we do come across large volumes of writing in our search for answers. I agree with Carr that most everyone is coming to rely much too much on the internet, and easily navigational search engines for quick answers and information. This point I believe needs more emphasizing sense so many people see it as an untrue claim, and think that the only reason people use these kinds of resources is because it is fast and easy, not because they have to due to their lack of attention span they have developed from them. Another claim Carr makes in his article is, “That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.” I believe here Carr is saying that we will all in time become to believe the same set of information to be true by only believing what we are reading on the internet. Carr is surely right about this due to the fact that artificial intelligence is when a large group of people are taught to believe a specific set of information, and that is exactly what happens when people use sites such as Google.