Thursday, January 28, 2010

Toulmin Model of "Is Good Making Us Stupider?"

The article Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr focuses on how online search engines such as Google are making us feel 'stupider'. Carr says search engines are spoon feeding us information linking us to other various links on the web. Carr's "claim" in this article is that the internet is blamed for our problems with concentration and surfing the internet. His "main point" is that Google is making us turn into lazy people. Google gives us different outlets to various websites which aids in the adjustments of our generation into a technologically advanced group of people, who require attention. Carr writes, as a reason to support this thesis, "A few google searches, some quick clinks on hyperlinks, and I've got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after". He knows that Google is beneficial even though it is making us feel stupider. Being lazy is not such a bad thing after-all. Carr also believes that technology is slowing us down while it speeds us up. He mentions Frederick Nietzsche's writing and how it began to change once he started using a typewriter. This agrees with the idea that technology changes us and how things get done. Nietzsche agrees that our technology changes the way we do things. We rely on technology so much that us as a generation are changing ourselves for "technology". However, even though this article is very intriguing and brings up many great points, I wonder if Carr wrote the article based on the belief if everyone has the internet available? Not EVERYONE in the world can access Google... so, who are the dumb ones here? The WHOLE world, or Google users?

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