In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, the author argued that the ease of online searching and distractions of browsing through the web were possibly limiting his capacity to concentrate. “I’m not thinking the way I used to,” he wrote, in part because he is becoming a skimming, browsing reader, rather than a deep and engaged reader. “The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas…. If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with ‘content,’ we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture.” Answer the prompt below:
What is your view of how technology is affecting the way we think, read, write, and live? Write an argumentative essay in which you either support or challenge Carr‘s conclusion that “as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that’s flattens into artificial intelligence. Take into consideration much the Internet and technology has changed since 2008, the original publication of Carr’s essay. Do those changes affect the credibility of the essay’s central arguments? Parse specific developments in the technological capabilities and role of the Internet to support your answer. of the essay’s central arguments? Parse specific developments in the technological capabilities and role of the Internet to support your answer. Consider mixing in some self-reflection on your own use of computers and technology to help make your argument stronger.
Essay Requirements:
This essay should be between 1,500 to 2,00 words long, double spaced, and should be set in Times New Roman, 12-point font.
Your paper should also have an MLA header, an engaging title, last name with page numbers, and one-inch margins.
Should have at least one quote from Carr’s essay.
This is to be completed by 8 PM on Friday.
