Is Google making us stupid ?

Carr's essay was worldwide critically discussed in media .Nicolas Carr criticizes the internet's effect on cognition. The writer says that the internet have shapes our thinking process. Moreover, he adds that our capacity of concentration and contemplation decreases because of the internet.He mentions the example of Friedrich Nietzcshe when he started using a typewriter, which was a new technology in the 1880’s.According to a German media scholar,Nietzche’s style of prose has changed.


 Carr believes that while reading from printed books, a more intense and sustained form of reading is exercised. He also states  that finding difficulties with concentration while reading books and long articles is may be due to the long time spent on the internet. Another argument that Carr uses is that neural circuits in the reading brain are shaped by the demands particular to written languages, Chinese for instance. As a result, he believes that neutral circuits which are shaped by the use of internet are different from those shaped by reading books and other printed materials. 


Carr affirms that as there is “ a tendency to glorify technological progress, there is a countertendency to expect the worst of every new tool or machine.” (540) In other words, every development in technology has both advantages and disadvantages . They can hold benefits for human knowledge as they can hold bad effects for their thinking process.