Is it really true that technology like Google making us stupid? Mr. Carr sure thinks so, and Google gives people ability to figure things out with out hardly any effort. When I moved to US, my dad always sent me to a dictionary when I asked him the meaning of a word I didn’t know. It was kind of a pain because an instant answer from Google would be awesome back them. Now, look around and you will see how people find ways to make thinking, deciding and judging as simple as possible. So, it’s not a surprise that Google is loved as it is. By not having what you want at your finger tips makes people actually do work and who wants to do that. The generation of college students now entering the new technology world and every generation following them will never look back at old ways (if they live in a world of "cyberspace”). So people need to question; what will happen to our future and the future of our children’s mind, when they have everything at a “push of a button”.
Now lets look at the positive side of Google. As The Future of Reading article point out, Google made things easier and faster. Even the “Pulitzer prize-winning journalist David Vise details the remarkable rise of Google from a $US1 million beginning to what is now a $US40 billion giant, accessed by more than 64 million people a day, in more than 100 languages.” That’s incredible if you ask me. So if you think about Google doesn’t make us stupid, in the way it only makes us bored, because it’s becoming more and more repetitive around the world.
Thank you for reading,
“The Future of
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