Is the Internet taking over?

Why would a fifth grader need a Macro Pro for school? School? " I questioned her.

"Yeah you know to Google things! " Almost Instantly Nicholas Car's essay, "Is Google Making us Stupid? " , came flying Into my head. HIS argument Is that depending on the Internet might endanger our complexity and creatively, flattening our Intelligence Into "artificial Intelligence" (34). And artificial Intelligence Is tattooed across my sister's forehead right now. The phrase artificial Intelligence lingered around my head In big bold letters, making me think about Car's essay thoroughly.When it comes to the Internet is artificial intelligence tattooed across all our foreheads? Although Cares essay was published 5 years ago, I still think it is very relevant, if not more relevant than it was in 2008. The Internet becomes simpler and simpler every year and since 2008 Google has grown even bigger with new inventions that give us even less responsibility and demand of thought.

Plainly simplifying the Internet more and making it easier to locate information. Like Carr says, "l once was a scuba diver in the sea of words.Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski," (4). Carr talks about how between the Internet and text messaging as a culture we read a lot more because of the Web. He states that "However when we read online we tend to become "mere decoders of information, our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged," Maryanne Wolf, a development psychologist at Tufts University that Carr quoted in his essay explains (8).

We arena born with the instinctive skill of reading, it isn't in our genes the way speech Is (8). Reading well requires us to teach our minds to translate symbolic characters Into the language we understand (8). So we learn how to read by interpreting letters In to rods then pronouncing them, but is the Internet changing the way we read? Wolf believes the style of reading on the Internet puts efficiency and Immediacy above all else and may weaken the capacity for deep reading that was fostered by the printing press which allowed for long works to be commonly available (8).Carr mentions how he cannot focus on longer worded articles on the Internet (4).

"The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle" (1). I find myself falling under the same category, not only on the Internet even with reading text In a book, I always flip wrought pages to see how long the text Is. Carr talks about him not being that feels this way about reading, as do some of his other colleagues. Like Carr I notice with my friends I'm not the only one either.I personally do not think it is Google and only Google that is making deep reading difficult in a sense, it is the Internet in general. When I'm on the Internet I know Tim side tracked for a good two hours just browsing a researcher, flogger, and writer like Carr, the Internet has been a God sent gift.

He admits that the Internet put great amounts of information at a click of an enter button. But according to him, the God sent gift has also been a terrible curse. "My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles," he says (4).The Internet definitely changed the way we expect the information to be processed, if you think about it the Internet is the root to finding out and starting almost all work we do now. It is simpler and our society loves simple, quick, and easy.

Foreman fears we are turning into "pancake people" who are spread wide and thin rather than people who have an "inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance (33). I do not think we will become pancake people from Just Google.Although you have every reason to say that Google is affecting all people using the internet, but I think that Google is not making people more stupid, Google is becoming more useful and helpful because Google's prerogative is to organize all the global information on the Internet so that people can access all this data simply, quickly, and easily. Google to me is more of a helpful tool not a harmful one, we still get the same information Just in a sweet simple quick version of it.

"Artificial intelligence," is not tattooed across all our foreheads after all.