it is making us stupid because for the most part most of the information you read on the internet you dont remember,The book is far superior.Internet has it benefits but people overuse it theres just too much information for your brain to handle on the internet.
This video does more to prove Carr's point than disprove it. You did nothing to address the arguments he makes regarding neuroplasticity and the way the Internet alters our modes of thinking. The most persuasive bit of evidence he presents in his book The Shallows was, for me, the study showing that even simply turning certain words in the text of academic material into links harmed the reader's ability to retain what they had read. Each link your brain has to decide whether to click distracts.
Why didn't this stupid google user look up "the 90's" to see that we had email all the way back then? We even had a device called the radio, which gave regular weather updates.
Google isn't making us dumb. To say that google is making us dumb, well; that like saying television is making us more intelligent. With laptops,cellphones, and thee other latest devices, google is like having a gigantic library in your room or pocket. I LOVE google because i have millions of stores to shop at in my own room...... Oh yea, I think the weather idea scene was awesome because you can't predict the weather yourself..... If it was for google u will have to sit thur the boring news.
Yeah, the problem is most young people don't use the internet to talk to their pen-pals across the world, or read about Karl Marx. They use the internet to complete stupid Myspace surveys and play Farmville. The internet isn't making people stupid, it's making stupid people stupider.
In his new book, "The Shallows," which is an expansion of the article in The Atlantic, Carr contends that using the Web is making it hard for people to contemplate or focus on one thing at a time. In other words, to think deeply, hence the title of the book. I agree. I think people today have the attention span of a gnat. They think they're mutlitasking, but any neuroscientist will tell you that when you multitask, you're not really effective at either thing as when you do one thing at a time.
I don't see how being able to look up pretty much any information with a click of a button can make you dumb. If anything it should be making people smarter. When I want to know something instead of having to go to a library and waste my time looking form some piece of shit book I can just find the info instantly and learn it right their and then. As far as this video is concerned the whole weather part of it was stupid. There is this thing called a window if you look out one you can see weather
@Louis69 hey dont hate on books. the ability to extract the needed information from a book is important, without it you wont be able to extract the needed information from a web page. whats more libraries have a great function, that is the ability to browse for information. i love google, and i think the ability to have the answer to every question you can ponder instantly is great, but libraries give you something else, the ability to get new questions to ponder.
@Louis69 (cont) i love going to a library going to the computer section and just picking out a book, sitting down and reading it. or the cooking section, or the mythology section, or the classical literature section. reading a book is a pleasurable experience to be enjoyed. siting down with a nice book and reading it can give you whole other avenues of thoughts to ponder that you may not have thought of before...then you can google those.
google doesnt replace the library, it amplifies it.
I'm surprised that you're painting people before technology as completely helpless: If I would decide to stay in just the same in 1990's weather as in the 2000's. If I had decided to run through rain after realizing it's hailing then it's my bad for losing my coat, or just the circumstances I have to deal with that technology wouldn't have affected either way. We have a tendency to forget how we got by without the technology we now take as commonplace-
and don't realize that the very fact that we have forgotten how capable we were before the technology became commonplace is a sign of the effect the technology has had on us. Case in point: I can't recall how I used to do it when I look back, but before cell phones I used to manage to arrange get togethers with my friends and meet and particular places without any muss or fuss.
I'm now so tied to my cell phone though, that I constantly need the text message updates and clarifications of someone who's running late, or where specifically they're standing waiting for me. This, in essence, is the very spirit of the McLuhan quote that we are trying to refute not just in this video, but in our everyday lives when we tell ourselves Google is not making us stupid.
it is making us stupid because for the most part most of the information you read on the internet you dont remember,The book is far superior.Internet has it benefits but people overuse it theres just too much information for your brain to handle on the internet.
pjacob2010 2 months ago
This video does more to prove Carr's point than disprove it. You did nothing to address the arguments he makes regarding neuroplasticity and the way the Internet alters our modes of thinking. The most persuasive bit of evidence he presents in his book The Shallows was, for me, the study showing that even simply turning certain words in the text of academic material into links harmed the reader's ability to retain what they had read. Each link your brain has to decide whether to click distracts.
ryepdx 7 months ago
Why didn't this stupid google user look up "the 90's" to see that we had email all the way back then? We even had a device called the radio, which gave regular weather updates.
vandorenw 9 months ago
this video made me stupid
arides 10 months ago 3
wikipedia, really?
scyth3nd 11 months ago
Challenges make us smart, easy lifes make us dumb.
kroooassant 1 year ago
Google isn't making us dumb. To say that google is making us dumb, well; that like saying television is making us more intelligent. With laptops,cellphones, and thee other latest devices, google is like having a gigantic library in your room or pocket. I LOVE google because i have millions of stores to shop at in my own room...... Oh yea, I think the weather idea scene was awesome because you can't predict the weather yourself..... If it was for google u will have to sit thur the boring news.
jewelless 1 year ago
Yeah, the problem is most young people don't use the internet to talk to their pen-pals across the world, or read about Karl Marx. They use the internet to complete stupid Myspace surveys and play Farmville. The internet isn't making people stupid, it's making stupid people stupider.
MissXMarlboro 1 year ago 2
In his new book, "The Shallows," which is an expansion of the article in The Atlantic, Carr contends that using the Web is making it hard for people to contemplate or focus on one thing at a time. In other words, to think deeply, hence the title of the book. I agree. I think people today have the attention span of a gnat. They think they're mutlitasking, but any neuroscientist will tell you that when you multitask, you're not really effective at either thing as when you do one thing at a time.
3e3op88 1 year ago
Stupid people will always be stupid and ignorant. They CHOOSE to be!
kja5 2 years ago
@kja5 you don't choose, you compute.
kroooassant 1 year ago
I don't see how being able to look up pretty much any information with a click of a button can make you dumb. If anything it should be making people smarter. When I want to know something instead of having to go to a library and waste my time looking form some piece of shit book I can just find the info instantly and learn it right their and then. As far as this video is concerned the whole weather part of it was stupid. There is this thing called a window if you look out one you can see weather
Louis69 2 years ago
@Louis69 hey dont hate on books. the ability to extract the needed information from a book is important, without it you wont be able to extract the needed information from a web page. whats more libraries have a great function, that is the ability to browse for information. i love google, and i think the ability to have the answer to every question you can ponder instantly is great, but libraries give you something else, the ability to get new questions to ponder.
tuseroni 1 year ago
@Louis69 (cont) i love going to a library going to the computer section and just picking out a book, sitting down and reading it. or the cooking section, or the mythology section, or the classical literature section. reading a book is a pleasurable experience to be enjoyed. siting down with a nice book and reading it can give you whole other avenues of thoughts to ponder that you may not have thought of before...then you can google those.
google doesnt replace the library, it amplifies it.
tuseroni 1 year ago
I'm surprised that you're painting people before technology as completely helpless: If I would decide to stay in just the same in 1990's weather as in the 2000's. If I had decided to run through rain after realizing it's hailing then it's my bad for losing my coat, or just the circumstances I have to deal with that technology wouldn't have affected either way. We have a tendency to forget how we got by without the technology we now take as commonplace-
PowerOnSoundOff 3 years ago
and don't realize that the very fact that we have forgotten how capable we were before the technology became commonplace is a sign of the effect the technology has had on us. Case in point: I can't recall how I used to do it when I look back, but before cell phones I used to manage to arrange get togethers with my friends and meet and particular places without any muss or fuss.
PowerOnSoundOff 3 years ago
I'm now so tied to my cell phone though, that I constantly need the text message updates and clarifications of someone who's running late, or where specifically they're standing waiting for me. This, in essence, is the very spirit of the McLuhan quote that we are trying to refute not just in this video, but in our everyday lives when we tell ourselves Google is not making us stupid.
PowerOnSoundOff 3 years ago
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