Nicholas Carr wrote an essay called “Is Google making us stupid?” In this essay Carr is concerned how much power has Google and internet itself gained in the last decade. Today people have fast and easy access to the internet to obtain any desired information. It is quite interesting if there is possibility for modern people to live without web access. People are so connected to the internet that the answer unfortunately is “no”.
Another concern that Carr introduces is that often internet users bring to an end reading novels and long text. Readers lose their patience of discovering information; instead they prefer to search for the information on search engines such as Google and others. In addition, Carr realizes that new technology and internet has changed many lives in today’s world, especially they thinking process.
In one of the paragraphs Carr states “In the past the man has been first, “he declared; “in the future the system must be first.” By stating a today’s truth about technology, Carr believes that people are becoming like programmed robots. Before people used to tell computers how to think and what to do with provided information. However, today it is directly opposite, computer provide people the information and tell them what to do with the information. Therefore, Carr is trying to ask his readers to realize the reality these days by themselves. I believe his point is to see if “you and I as readers” realize our current situation and see if we agree to continue with what is given and provided or if we want to stop and seek the change. Maybe we need to stop and go to the old way of discovering the information by ourselves. Maybe being the robots is not what we were born to be. Carr really wants us to think about ourselves.
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