Reading Respones #4 (Is Google.....)

In Nick Carr's article “Is google making us stupid?”, he talks about how technology is changing people. Changing the way we read, write, and even think. Carr claims that the human brain is almost infinitely malleable. Another interesting claim Carr makes in his article is that people are becoming more like technology.

Nick Carr believes that technology is changing the way peoples brains work. In his article he claims that “The human brain is almost infinitely malleable.” his evidence backs this up, “a Professor of neuroscience,.. says that even the adult mind “is very plastic.” The professor goes on to state that “The brain has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions.” Carr is trying to prove that the brain is always changing, and that the way people think and or operate is changing as well. I agree that the human brain is always changing, I know that I think a lot differently know than I did even last year at this time. I think everything we do and every experience we have changes the way we think, not just technology.

Later on in Carr's article he maintains that technology is not only changing the way we think, it's changing us all together. “As we use what the sociologist Daniel Bell has called our “intellectual technologies”- tools that extend out mental rather that our physical capacities- we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies”. Basically Carr is saying that people are becoming more like technology. I agree with Carr up to a point. I do believe that technology has defiantly changed the way people think and the way we do things today. On the other hand I'm not sure if people are becoming like technology or thinking like computers think. I also think it's important to mention that everything changes the way we think and the way our brains work not just technology.