"Is Google Making Us Stupid"

Google along with the Internet has changed the way humans think. Nicholas Carr sees Google as an "artificial intelligence." Google has created the ways for which humans can no longer read a book or contemplate one subject. Human minds know just seem to drift from one focus to another focus. Nicholas Carr states, "I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text." Carr argues in "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" that he is no longer able to experience deep reading which he claims is an immediate cause of Google. Many of Carr's friends have backed up his reasoning telling him of their circumstances with the subject. Scott Karp, a blogger, questions what happened to the days when he used to be a voracious reader. Scholars from University College London conducted experiments in which they found people skimming over websites skipping from one website to the next. Nicholas Carr quotes Maryanne Wolf, a psychologist and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, who asserts "We are not only what we read. We are how we read." This reasoning backs Carr's opinion that our old cognition has been etched out by the existence of the Internet. Whether or not Google is truly affecting the way one thinks, everyone uses Google. If Carr's argument proves to be true then everyone is slowly adapting their minds to the fast and easy world of the Internet.