In today’s society where the Internet is now widely used, we are becoming more aware and relying on the advanced technological supplementation that a computer can offer. In a July/August issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Nicholas Carr elaborates on how the Internet has not only deteriorated our attention span but is also destroying our powers of concentration. He also believes the Internet has become “an immeasurable powerful computing system that is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies.” Carr argues that not only does the Internet shape how we read, but how we think. Throughout his argumentation, he consistently gives credible sources that help support his reasoning for some of his arguments. Carr uses resources as bloggers and a research study conducted by the University College London. He also explains that our brains are operating “like computers” and that the Internet is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. Also, fearing that the Google search engine may turn into artificial intelligence, A “HAL-like machine that might be connected directly to our brains” as Carr had explained, is wary of the after effects that this may cause for the next generation to come. Although his strategies of argumentation were efficient, I don’t believe that the internet is changing the way we think or read and that it might actually be making us smarter.
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