2. THE AUTHOR
Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American writer who has
published books and articles on technology, business, and
culture.
His book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our
Brains was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General
Nonfiction. His books have been translated into more than
twenty-five languages.
Nick has been a columnist for the Guardian in London and has
written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Wall Street
Journal, Wired, the New Republic, MIT Technology Review,
Nature, and other periodicals.
3. The Book
This book informs that how technology is effecting our brains.
We are becoming dependent upon it in things like to increase work
productivity, reading, and writing.
We are becoming too use to being able to access information
faster and more conveniently.
University College London reported that there were new forms
of reading called “power browse”, which is to skim and read for
quick answers.
Nicolas wrote the article as his personal experience using the
internet and what he personally thinks.
4.
5. THE ARGUMENT
In response to Nicholas Carr’s Is google
making us stupid, Trent Batson replies
“No, Google is not making us stupid.
What Google and the Web are doing is
helping us re-claim our human legacy of
learning through a rapid exchange of
ideas in a social setting. Google is,
indeed, making us smarter as we re-discover
new ways to learn.”
6. WHAT I LEARNED
It made me realize how much of a distraction technology
actually is. Technology has made it hard for me to stay
focused when reading things you cannot learn about
quickly. Through technology we can access any
information's in a minute rather than reading the whole
book, this is effecting the learning.
7. WORK CITED
Carr, Nicolas. “ Is google making us stupid.” Published 1st July 2009
Batson, Trent. 18 March 2009. “Response to Nicolas carr’s Is google making us
stupid.”
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