Is Google Making Us Stupid?

"And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." -Nicholas Carr

I believe that Google is actually making us people dumber. Our minds are being filled with information that could be easily accessed, and because of this, we are so accustomed to taking in everything on a very brief scale. I agree with Nicholas Carr's statement above, because now people are really just skimming through the surface. People of this day and age are too used to taking in the information that they easily have access to, without giving it a second thought on if it really is true or not.

I believe that this is a problem, because the Internet is now indirectly teaching us to just believe things on the internet. Before, humans were very intelligent beings who would contain all of their knowledge in their head. As time passed by, technology got better, and things such as writing was invented. With these new innovations that would help people have an easier time retaining their knowledge, it is making them lazier, and they start to use their brains less. Now, this innovation has gotten all the way to Web. And this has made people extremely lazy to the point where they will take in whatever is given to them.

The internet, to me, is seen as something that will provide all sorts of information in just a matter of seconds. Because of this, people have learned to think about what's in the surface, and no deeper than that. People just go on the internet, get the information needed, and then go to another browser to do the same thing. From this, there is no real learning done-- all that's done is just a matter of absorbing things so that it may be regurgitated at a future time. No one who uses the internet tries to think beyond the information and text provided. They just simply take in what is being fed to them.

Sure, the internet is great for connecting people from all parts of the world, but at the same time, this is making everyone think and act the same way. There is no real individual thinking done, since everything is so unified under the internet. The world has become globalized, and this has made humans from all different parts of the world lose their cultural identity and their ability to think for themselves. Now, everyone relies on the internet for their information, and they do not think outside of the internet's boundaries. If someone wants to search up the best hair styles, they do not seek out a hair stylist, but the internet. This is the same with everything else. When faced with a problem, people learn to become complacent, and they just try to figure out things that are still within the boundaries of this world; they do not want to think any further than the limitations that they have placed on themselves. Because of this, people have become lazy and dumb. They are keeping everything within what the world has placed as their limits, when before, those people back then were capable of doing just that-- thinking for themselves. No one thinks for themselves now; they do not ask if something is true or not. They simply take it in without questioning it. We human beings were made to think and do so much more. Our brains are capable of so much more, but things such as the internet has killed our minds and our ability to think.