Essay

Nicholas Carr in his article “Is Google Make Us Stupid'” discusses the how internet impact on our thinking, reading, writing habits and how our brains react to adopt to the new technolgy. He is also believes the Internet is the reason why many people including himself is now unable to read books and also facing a hard time to concentrating a read long text book and being able to stay. the first part of the article, Nicholas Carr argues about the uses of internet, by the search engines on google how its affected our reading and writing habits. For example, with in a one minuteWe used to cogitate, analyze over and over before coming up with a verdict. Nowadays, within one minute searching with the Google toolbars, the great databases of the Internet will immediately bring the information to us. the printed books its is also very easy throug the use of Internet. In other hand,writing becomes a real challenge for us and a writer too because we spend too much time on the media society. However, thats not easy to our brains let Internet easily control our minds by reacting to adapt to the “new tecnology”. He is also strictly criticize in his article,the day human will become more “machineslike” as a use of google and its high-technology toolbars and eventhough no one realize that. His best example author used in the beginning of the article with a description of the closing scene in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey when Dave dismantles the memory circuits of Hal, the artificial brain that controls the space ship. Carr also mentions an historical example involving Nietzsche's usage of a typewriter, a fairly new technology in the 1880s. According to Nietzsche's writing styles changed when he started using a typewriter, which he had adopted because of his developing difficulty with writing by hand due to failing eyesight. However, it was the best invansion, but still how badly that writing equipment takespart in the forming of our thoughts. In other exapmle,Carr also explain the sociologist Daniel Bell  coined the term "intellectual technologies,” the tool that extend mental rather than physial capacity, we take on the qualities of those technologies. Carr states that he believes that the human brain adopts the qualities of these intellectual technologies. For example, mechanical clock, when the clock was invented and made time easily measurable by numbers rather than just by the sun because when we started looking at the clock, we are also start an absolute measurement when we start doing activities like eating or sleeping. Additionally,he is also deliberates upon the benefits and losses that are characteristic of new technologies.