Google!!

"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"...the title of Nicholas Carr's article about the internet's affects to our brains seemed pretty self-explanatory of what the paper was going to be about. He went on for seven pages to talk about how the internet is affecting how we read, think, learn, work, etc. He was able to go back through time to basically every advancement in writing and reading. All of them showed similarities in the ways that they changed the human's way of thinking. The examples were like...evidence to the point Carr was trying to make. His basic idea was that the internet and it's search engines have made reading completely different and more difficult. Now we have changed to skimming and hopping around. I personally think he has a good point...but at the same time, I like the easy and quick access to information I need.

There were a couple things that bothered me about the way that he wrote the piece. There were times when I didn't understand why he included what he did. Maybe I was just having a hard time finding a reason to actually understand the first paragraph, but to me it didn't have a point. "Dave, stop, will you? Will you stop, Dave?..." I thought it was a terrible introduction.

I guess that might be kind of picky to criticize for the paper, because it was a good overall paper. There were a lot of things that I liked and a lot of things that I agreed with. I thought that Carr did a great job of putting out an example from years ago and then nicely connecting it to how the internet has changed things as well. One example would be the "like clock work" and "like computers" part in the paper. These allowed me to have a lot of great realizations as I read the piece.

I also thought he did a great job of including important and useful supporting details for the points he was making. I agreed with pretty much everything that he said. The article was a lot better, in my opinion, than the skunk one because it actually made sense to me and was a lot easier to read.