Leonel Ramos
Mrs.Harrell
ENG 112
May 3, 2023
Final Exam Essay The articles “'Rise of the Machines' is Not a Likely Future” by Micheal Littman and the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr discuss the topics of the impact of technology. The articles discuss the same topic in a unique way but sway in view points. For example in the article “Rise of the Machines' is Not a Likely Future” Littman suggest that technology is not here to over take us and going to take over he suggest that AI is still in the work and has room to improve but we should use it to improve society. On the contrary Nicholas Carr writer of “Is Google Making Us Stupid” suggest that humans are taking advanteg of the accommodation technology has given them and
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Nicholas car makes several compeling arguments to justify his claim. A strong claim that really had some significance on me siding with Carr was when he explains how the use of technology has infulced humans mental habits in a negative way he states this “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print” (483). This small claim elaborates on a big part of the problem the infulecne of the technology has not not only made it difficulty to focus reading a article on a website but has mad it difficult to even skim a short passage. Carr suggest that the impact of technology has caused a snowball affect on the laziness of humans he states this to further justify his argument “ that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited. They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would “bounce” out to another site. Sometimes they’d save a long article, but there’s no evidence that they ever went back and actually read it”(483). I feel like throughout the article Carr uses credible sources that sway not only me but other readers to understand the gravity of the situation between them and
In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicolas Carr analyzes the dramatic affects that technologies have been having on our brains. The short summary, the Net is making us all mindless zombies in Carr’s mind, but he is not the only who feels that way. His long dragged out article is abundantly full of meaning examples, personal opinions, and hard facts on the drastic changes the Net has done to our brains. Carr starts his articles with the death of super computer, HAL, from the movie A Space Odyssey.
In Nicholas Carr's article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is to inform the younger, upcoming generations on how the Internet may have negative effects on the human mind, in that, the way in which we abuse the Internet and not let our brains figure things out without the need of searching it on Google. Nicholas Carr begins by explaining how he feels that the Internet is causing his focus issues, in which he cannot keep focus while reading a book. Carr has his own personal experiences with the negative effects of the Internet, and he also provides research on how other writers had agreed with him on the subject to help support his strategies of logos. The use of the evidence from the other writers helps to draw in the reader and show them the effects of the Internet. Apparently reading on the Internet doesn't let people read the entire article and it is seen that they go from page to page, losing focus quickly.
Every day new technology is advancing to makes its way into the world where it is used more efficiently. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,”, Nicholas Carr claims that human are no longer able to focus on longer texts due to the rise of digital texts. Nicholas Carr includes strong evidences to support his statement; and through the usage of ethos and pathos, he is able to convince his readers that “the Net is becoming a universal medium” (Carr). Examples of Ethos are evident throughout the article making Carr’s argument deductively valid. Nicholas Carr is known for his reputation as someone who has written influential pieces and earning many awards for his accomplishments.
These people sound pretty credible so their opinions would most likely have more of an affect on someone than those of an 18 year old beginning college. Carr quotes Friedrich Nietzsche, a man whose vision was failing bought a typewriter because he found that his writings and ideas being put to screen were just failing. He decided to go out and purchase a typewriter so that the ideas could pour out of him and straight to the paper, which changed the way he wrote, his “tight prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic”. Technology is a major improvement and successful help to us all, but Carr believes it has an underlying side effect almost. It’s unnoticeable to the human mind, we just adapt to the slow mental changes without being aware of it at
In Nicholas Carr's article, “Is Google making us Stupid?” (731-745) his thesis is, “...what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.” (733) According to Carr, the Internet affects the way that we read, think, and live. It affects the way we read because through the continued use of the Internet we have been conditioned to skim through information quickly and efficiently.
Analysis of Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicolas Carr is an author that focuses on technology and the effects of it’s dependency has on our social lives and the way we think. (Insert Nicholas Carr website.) He has written for several popular magazines on these subjects including “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic Monthly.
In the article” Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Nicholas Carr is trying focus on the audience to capture the audience attention. Also the internet is making people mentally handicapped. People are becoming lazy. Instead of analyzing the book to answer the question, people are typing the questions in on the internet to get the answers the lazy way. People’s brains are negatively affected.
Carr explains the internet has start to negatively impact our way of thinking, it brings distraction and lead us lost our concentration and also let us become impatient when reading a longer piece of article. Carr uses examples from history, his personal experience, and
He notes that the development of writing and the printing press led to significant changes in the way people thought and communicated. By comparing the internet to these historical developments, Carr suggests that the digital age is simply the latest iteration in a long line of technological advances that have fundamentally altered human cognition. In addition, Carr appeals to expert testimony to support his argument. He cites studies and quotes from prominent neuroscientists and researchers who suggest that the internet may be negatively impacting our ability to concentrate and process information.
Rhetorical Analysis of Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid? We are at a time where technology is widespread; it has become a part of our everyday life leading to advantages and disadvantages. Technology nowadays has become the most important topic to discuss and everyone has developed their own unique opinion. In Nicholas Carr’s article published in 2008, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” he argues that as technology progresses people’s mentality changes.
In today’s society, technology plays a very important role in its ability to function, it helps people find information, communicate with others far away and provides entertainment. In “Fahrenheit 451”, a book written by Ray Bradbury, a dystopian future where books have been made illegal is presented. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, raises many questions about technology and its effects on society. It’s quite evident that we have become quite dependent on technology due to our overconsumption of it.
It has come very clear to me that our generation that is very accustomed to using the internet are maybe just a little lazier than the generation who did not have computers and other technologies. For instance, I myself find it much easier to go search something I do not know rather than looking it up in a book, because it is much quicker and simpler. If it was not for the internet some discoveries would have never been found, some people would not have made billions and some may even learn to read out of book without getting
We live in a society where people are becoming more and more dependent on and overwhelmed with technology. Every day something new, better and faster comes out. The rapid advancement of technological innovations has made it harder for people and their minds to catch up with what they are dealing with. With this, more and more people are becoming unable to face reality. Nicholas Carr’s essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is just another example of how rapid technological advancements are changing us without us even realizing.
Nicholas Carr's argument against the internet was very strong, and it persuaded me. It is very difficult for me to go against his opinion. I agree that the internet is changing us, but not in ways we think. There are long-term effects of using the internet as often as we do. He states that the internet is changing the way our brains function such as having a shorter attention span, negatively changing the way we critically think, and negatively changing our reading skills.
Artificial Intelligence and its effect on the workforce Artificial intelligence(AI) is a recent reality of technological advancement affecting human society. To analyze its effect on the workforce we will look back in history for technological disruptions and how they affected the workforce and compare and contrast to the way AI is currently impacting and will continue impacting the human workforce and other aspects of human society such as economics, politics and the general environment. History Throughout history technological advancement has affected human society in its ways of living, working and its environment.