"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (Blog #8)

As I am finishing the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr I found this reading to be extremely long but very true. Carr goes on and on and uses way to many examples in his article to make his main points. Carr talks about how Google is consuming our brain's to get information with the click of a button or by skimming a few words of a text. The internet has made complex research super "simple" for people to learn about certain things. My favorite analogy that Carr uses is when he says, "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." To me he is saying that before internet was available to people, someone would have to read in textbooks and books to find out information. The information would be in pages and pages of text. But today in society there are so many websites that give you all the answers to your questions and all the information that you are looking for. 

Although this article was long, I found it interesting to read all the examples Carr uses even though he could have eliminated a few. Its so true that in the days back when there was no technology to just feed you the info and answers, you actually had to search and read what it was that you needed to know. Today when you get on the internet and read articles from any site you get on, there are ads, pop up videos and pictures that detour the readers eyes off the page. Distractions take the readers attention off the text and they loose complete focus and attain nothing. Overall this article was enjoyable even though some stuff was hard to read and understand as Carr went on with some examples.