A New Way to Get Dumber

At first glance, I felt that these 8 pages were going to be about how Google is so bad for our generation and how we are getting dumber by the second due to the massive use and control of Internet in our lives. However, as I read, I felt Nicholas Carr strayed away from the concept of Google’s causation of dumbness, and focused on the actual use of the Internet and technology in general, and every so often he connected back to the idea of Google being the cause. So, as of now, I don’t know what Carr thinks is the causation of us dumbing down, and I don’t think he does either.
Even though I don’t know exactly Carr’s position, I will still explain what his title means. So since I feel that Carr is trying to explain that the Internet and the rise of technology are the perpetrators of people losing contact with the way they use to think when they read textbooks and not online articles and fast past research. I myself have to agree with Carr that, “all the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.” Even as I type this blog, I have my Facebook open to the right of the screen barely so I can chat with friends, I have my smart phone to the right of me so I can text friends, and music is blaring. My mind is not really in control right now, I am simply looking at what my computer allowed me to highlight and I am just regurgitating what is typed on my screen.
Nicholas Carr as well touches base on the fact that our minds and brains are starting to work in the pace and ways of computers and not like “clocks”, like they use to. Instead of slow, steady and patient, we are now skimming books, taking in countless of information all at once, and rushing through the learning process. So to go as far as saying that we are getting dumber due to Google, the Internet, or technology, seems kind of hard to believe. Instead of saying my generation is getting dumber, I feel we are simply just using characteristics that are not so much needed or prevalent in our world today. Instead, we are simply adapting to our surroundings and are learning in a new way instead of sticking with “who knows best.”