Wednesday, March 30, 2011
After reading Carr’s article about Google, I have two opinions. The first thing is that I agree that I sometimes have trouble reading articles that are of a significantly longer length, but I don’t think that has anything to do with the resources available to me on the internet. The other thing is that I feel Google has had the opposite effect on me than Carr is saying in his article. For me and for some of my friends that I have asked, feel that Google hadn’t made us dumber but we learnt things from Google. The easy access allows us to instantly find something out we were wondering instead of having to go somewhere, take out a book and scour the book for the info that were looking for. Carr came off like someone who just misses the way things used to be.
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Again, a bit short, Sean.
ReplyDeleteTo some degree, I think you're right - Carr is definitely lamenting our tech-heavy culture, even as he admits to benefiting from it. We learn a lot from the internet, things we probably never would have bothered to look up without Google.
But might our waning attention spans have something to do with the way we intereact with Google & the internet? Maybe we can't blame Google outright - but the Net does seem to encourage a certain kind of thinking...