Google =)

Sooo…I completely agree with Carr’s opinion on how humans turn to the internet or Google as a shortcut for his or her brain to have to not work as much. I found myself being guilty of this act when I clicked Carr’s article and realized it was about thirty paragraphs long. I thought to myself, “Wow, do I really have to read all of this…or should I just skim it?” When I look back on it, the article was, in reality not that elongated. My mind is so used to creating shortcuts to reading and finding out answers to certain details that it actually lessons my knowledge in my reading and learning ability.

It stated in the article how people used to read through books after books to find out information needed; it inhibits a person’s time management, but, on a positive note, the individual actually obtains new knowledge from it. Now, since the internet is almost like a supply closet where we can search and choose information to read in a click, we block ourselves from important information we could have obtained if we actually motivated ourselves to take more time to process and actually read more about it.

He states how we are “artificial intelligence” and we are “mere decoders of information”. I could not agree more. When we allow ourselves to function in a way that is pulling our brain away from higher, more independent knowledge, we are losing our mere, overall, independence. Also, when we depend on typing in a word to find loads of meanings of it on the internet, instead of taking time of reading something to obtain it; we can be prone to acts of brainwash. The internet source is not always correct, and people seem to always rely on it. It is ultimately degrading. We are allowing ourselves to lesson our knowledge when we depend on the internet.