Is Google Making Us Stupid

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

This article has a very strong grasp on effective writing, in order to explain, you have to understand what effective writing is. What is effective writing? In simple words, effective writing is a piece or writing that immediately involves the reader’s interest and carries the reader through to the final paragraph with no loss of concentration. Some may call it a narrative hook, designed to catch a reader’s attention with a great title but, as the reader reads on they come to find themselves lost having no understanding of what they have just read. As I sat down to write this review I had to make sure the document followed certain guidelines. Is the document able to achieve the purpose it’s intended for and, is the document able to get it across effectively?

Is Google Making Us Stupid? At the beginning of the article, the writer uses a very catchy hook to draw the reader. When you ask a question with such great magnitude the reader has a hard time not to investigate. The article then goes on to talk about how technology has changed how we process information and, how we stop using our brains and traded it in for a computer. Technology today is far more advanced than it has been in the last 20 years and it will continue to advance further more in the following years. When reading this I began to question myself, is technology making me stupid? Looking over the past years at how much things have changed, I am inclined to agree that technology is making us stupid.

At this point the article is no longer about Google but the reference changes and start to talk about technology. The references in the article are very thought provoking and I could say that this is one of its biggest strengths. One example that sticks out in my mind that makes a reader really sit back and wonder is how it states that; “The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the...