Technology

Brian Eco

Professor Yi

English 101 B13

October 6, 2014

Reader Response

In the two articles “Is Google making us stupid” by Nicholas Carr and “Is Google making

students stupid” by Nick Romeo both show how the internet and technology are taking over our minds

and how we live. It affects our minds because we learn everything from the internet then we forget it

later in the future. Back then in the 1980s and early 1990s the nun's never had internet so they beat the

information into the kids till they never forgot it. Technology affected all of us citizens because the

machines are taking over the production line. A lot of people are losing their jobs because the machines

can do it now. In the article “Is Google making us stupid” by Nicholas Carr he shows a valid point in

paragraph five where he says “When I mention my troubles with reading to friends and acquaintances

literary types, most of them many say they’re having similar experiences. The more they use the Web,

the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing (Carr, Paragraph five)”. This

statement states that the long term effects of reading online is having trouble speaking in public and

also having problems reading actual books. People will also start to experience that they can not read

long reading passages. This is going to be a problem for the future generation of kids the internet is

going to trap our future kids and this is going to change the world. In the article “ Is Google making

students stupid by Nick Romeo he shows a valid point in paragraph four where he says “ All of this has

unmistakable implications for the use of technology in classrooms: When do technologies free students

to think about more interesting and complex questions, and when do they erode the very cognitive

capacities they are meant to enhance? The effect of ubiquitous spell check and Auto Correct software is

a revealing example (Romeo, Paragraph four)”. This statement shows...