How the Internet has Made us Unintelligent

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How the Internet has made us Unintelligent
The purpose of the Internet in our lives has been applauded for all the right reasons; however, many scholars have published books and articles that have awakened our realization of the negative effects that the Internet has brought into our lives. For example, Nicholas Carr, in his article, "Is Google making us Stupid," is suggesting that the Internet, or rather Google, has over time impaired our cognition ability. He points out that the Internet is now our primary source of information, which before the Internet, books served that purpose. People would read books, magazines, and even newspapers, which significantly boosted their cognitive ability because traditional reading was constructive and faced few distractions once a person focused on the pieces (Carr, 2018, n.p). The argument posed by Carr in this article is that the deep reading of books and literature pieces that he once had is now a struggle, and not to only him but to more people too especially writers, and scholars, and it is so thanks to Google.
In the article, Carr recognizes the advantages of the Internet, especially as a writer. He poses that research that took a long time is now done in minutes with the Internet. Some quick searches and clicks on hyperlinks can get you any information you were looking for; however, Carr strongly believes that the use of Google as our primary source of information has made us replace thinking, calling the Internet a "blessing to thinking". His views are that the Internet has become a substitute for thinking which costs us our cognitive abilities since the Internet shapes the process of thinking, chops away our concentration capacity and contemplation. This is because when reading online, one hopes from one article to another without finishing it because of lack of concentration, according to a study finding that Carr uses.
Furthermore, the author poses that the information we get from Google is treated as a substitute for writing. This argument impacts me as a student because we get information from Google and substitute our writing rather than using the information to enhance our ideas and critical thinking. I agree that reading an article online is difficult because we lose concentration after two, three paragraphs because of how Web interfaces are.
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