Saturday, January 26, 2013

Eng. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr

Technology has revolutionize drastically in the last couple of decades with impressive high scale gadgets for the  every day average person. Now days we see not only the adults with tablets but the young children of about 5 years old of using SMARTPHONES super easy as if the it were their second nature like breathing. Having such devices with just a click away from the Net where information/data is uploading at every second  could be risky.
In the article "Is google making us stupid?" by Nicholas Carr approaches various topics of how we have change our ways of witting and or reading ever since technology/Internet has been invented? One of the questions he approaches  is 1)if the Net takes away our capacity for concentration? He believes it does, because of how the Net distributes the information like "a swiftly moving stream of particles," thus far making it hard to concentrate when everything is being thrown at you at an unbelievable short time. The Net is a data system that gathers data from what you search hence every time you are online searching it's gathering in that specific subject and sending you to links that are related to the topic for you to check it out. Therefore your spam of concentration on a specific topic shortens, because you only scan the research quickly and perhaps saving it to re-read it later and move to the second link then the third  and so on. But after going through many articles/data there's little chance to go back and re-read the first search. Back in the day researchers use to go through books and books to gather the maximum amount of data on a specific topic It was process that might or might not be fun to do, but regardless their concentration was more acute. 2)Does writing in pen or pencil on a piece of paper  or on a computer changes the way you think? 3)Does the Net shape the style you read?

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