Reading Response 4

Nicholas Car wrote and amazing article, “Is Google Making Us stupid?” Throughout the entire article there were many interesting claims. One very convincing claims that Car wrote, “We inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.”(Page 4) This claim corresponds with the idea that people are starting to think like computers. When using a computer the average person searches for the information that they desire to obtain. They may use Google. The search brings back many different pages that can bring them the information that they are looking for. While reading the searcher might read a tad bit of each of the pages. Then move on to another. Or they just might skim the article for what they are actually intending to find. Now people are thinking more and more like this. After using the Internet for some time, some people may think differently about reading actual books. On average the reader cannot read without getting board. That means that that they are trying to read the book like they are reading an online page.
Car introduces many other ideas throughout his entire paper. Car shares, “The human brain is almost infinitely malleable.” A prior thought was that people’s brains were “hard wired” after a certain point in life. The brain is fully developed after the age of twenty-five, but the way that the information travels isn’t all established. Now, after moving to using computers to help people gather information. The brain starts to operate much differently. The brain slowly starts to act like a computer. This proves that the brain isn’t fully established. The wiring that we have established throughout education is there, but after using the computer the wiring started to change. The wiring can still change anytime, just if the thinker starts to change their habits. I have read this article a few times. I agree with both of the points the Car established in his work. I think that this is true, because many people my age do not fully read educational assignments. Car’s article was seven pages long, and I am surprised many of the people finished the reading. Skimming has become much more popular as the Internet has became more popular. When the article at which is being analyzed gets longer more and more people get turned off of finishing. I think that we are more like are computers in this way. I agree with the fact that our brains are malleable too. I have seen many people change their habits. Then, when they think that they can go back the can’t possibly go back. Personally I think that the article is confronting a topic the is very debatable depending on where you stand.