Chapter10

Chapter 10 Is Google making us stupid?


As I read the article, I was impressed at what he was saying in response that his reading and thinking habits have changed due to reading most of his information on the web. I think he made a sensible argument into how this might have happened to him. The problem here though with the story is that he is trying to support the fact that this is happening to everyone on the internet. While maybe this reading/thinking perception theory is happening to him and some friends doesn’t support that everyone is in this boat. He points this out when he mentions that there haven’t been any scientific experiments to support his opinions. I did like the way he correlates other stories into his own. They were along the same lines to what he was getting across to his audience. I agree with the fact that our minds are always in a constant state of change and that the way we perceive our information has a lot to do with the way we receive the information. The reason I think this article in a sense is weak is that it is to long winded and drawn out. Maybe my opinions are directly related to this article, is Google making us stupid? I had a hard time focusing in on the whole story and was taken away from the main idea of the story more than once. The section where he was telling us about the mission statement of Google was kind of scary, when speaking about artificial intelligence. This story is basically a biased one if you haven’t spent much time on the computer. I’m speaking about his part of the story, that is…