I Google, therefore I am losing the ability to think

I believe that John Naughton is right in saying that Google impairs us from the ability to fully use our heads. Because of the network, and because it is so fast and easy to use it, we tend to simply absorb information without giving it a second thought. The internet, which we look to for education, actually makes us into dumber people, since we cannot seem to rely on anything else for our information. People of this modern day and age rely on the internet for everything. So their brains are programmed to just soak in only the information that is necessary to them at that time. Because of this, we tend to do this with everything. People just want to hand pick out things that only they want to know at that moment, and they do not try to think about anything beyond that. The internet has changed the way human beings think, and it has made us into people who just take in whatever is given to us. However, what will happen if we keep on doing that? Eventually, we as people will lose our ability to think for ourselves if we keep on absorbing anything. Because of Google, we have lost the art of questioning everything, and truly digging into the real deal. A man named Nicholas Carr, who was mentioned in the article said that, "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." People have lost a sense of digging beyond the surface into the depths of a situation or a problem. In theory of knowledge, it is all about getting people to think deeper into the situation. However, people just take in whatever is thrown at them, and they become “dumb” by just simply accepting everything as it is. People were made to think way beyond that.

Also, due to the internet, the truth is twisted. The people are just so used to believing in everything that the media throws at them. Because of this, they do not try to figure out what is really true or not. They just take the bait and eat it. In actuality, these people do not have a mind of their own. They are just taking in what society says is right, and with that, they are just learning to take in and regurgitate what they have learned. There is no real thought in what they are saying, these things are all just the things of this world that were rephrased and put out. Human beings have a very big brain, but we do not even use 10% of it. This is mainly due to our lack of knowledge outside of just the things that we want to know. Also, the knowledge that we are taking in might not be the absolute truth, yet we still take it in and accept it as a truth simply because it seems factual. In example, things on Wikipedia look very professional, when in actuality, it is not. The site is open for anyone to edit it. It just seems very professional and factual, when in actuality, it is a trick, and there is a high chance of the answers on the site to be wrong.

The internet does not do any good for us, and it only seems to be making us dumber and less open for other sources of knowledge. I believe that without the internet, we humans would have been far better off because we would have to truly take in a problem, chew on it for a bit, then swallow it or spit it out.