In the article “Is Google making us stupid” author Nicholas Carr talks about the internet and technology and how it effects the brains cognition and ability to learn. Nicholas Carr goes into some detail about how before the internet came along people could read a lot more in depth articles and books and still maintain our attention on the book for long periods of time. Now due to the internets jumpy scattered style of information it is affecting our brains differently now. Nicholas Carr states “My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles." What Nicholas Carr means is that due to the way that people use the internet and how it assimilates all the knowledge for you, that’s the way he now thinks. Most people when on the internet use it so much they only search articles or web sites for the information they need so they skim along only reading what is necessary. Nick Car is relating the way we use the internet to the way we now learn.
In today’s world we have a vast majority of different technologies surrounding us, in our everyday word. These technologies affect us in many different ways, we as humans tend to rely on technology a lot more day in and day out. Our alarm clock for instance wake us up on time so that we can get to work or school on time. Nick Carr states “We inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.”(Page 4) Carr is relating our need and dependency on the internet to in which ways we use them. So for how people use the internet skipping around from article to article we start to learn and behave that way. Our conversations are becoming more to the point blunt and less conversational. Students reading and learning abilities start to function that way, and ironically more and more people are being diagnosed with ADD. That would be something to think about, does the way we rely on technology contribute to any of our current issues such as being diagnosed with ADD. It could be realted to that because the learning style reflects the symptoms that doctors would diagnose people with ADD with.