2. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
Nicolas Carr
• American journalist
• Writes about tech and culture
• Published in The Atlantic
• Thesis: The internet is changing the way we
think for the worse.
3. “Smarter Than You Think” Clive
Thompson
• Canadian journalist
• Writes about popular science, tech, and culture
• Excerpted from Smarter Than You Think: How
Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
• Thesis: Our growing reliance on technology is
changing how we think and act: there are benefits
and drawbacks to this dependence, but on the
whole, the changes are good.
4. “Google, Democracy, and the Truth about
Internet Search” Carole Cadwalladr
• Welsh journalist and novelist
• Writes about tech and politics
• Published in The Guardian
• Thesis: The right wing is manipulating Google’s
search algorithms to influence how we think:
we need to act against this and demand more
accountability and transparency from large
tech companies.