Corrales 1

Juan Corrales
S. Baldwin Instructor
Writing 990 Section 26
Summary, response, and citation
10/26/2017
Is google making us stupid? what the internet is doing to our brains

The writer tries to expose how he experienced the changes that the internet has

caused in his life and in his mind, how he has unconsciously developed a great deficit of

attention at the moment of making a reading and in case of carrying it out is superficial.

The development and reach of the internet in recent decades is impressive and observing

the way in which it has become an essential part of many lives is an alert, changing the

way information search with the advent of the Internet took a turn of 180 , which used

to mean a search for hours and hours between large and heavy books now means seconds

to give with thousands of entries of information within reach of a single click.

Throughout the article experiences are mentioned where other writers have

identified with the sensation of loss of the capacity of concentration and contemplation

in a reading and although there are not yet studies or clear and precise information that

corroborates that the use of the network to throughout this time has resulted in changes

in our way of thinking, reading and processing information, in other words the internet

promises to have powerful effects on cognition, in addition should be mentioned as a

means of communication fulfills so many roles in our lives and is incorporating most of

our other intellectual technologies.

It is becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our

calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV. Undoubtedly the progress we have

made as humanity is undeniable, but due to the hectic lifestyle we are developing it is

increasingly difficult to develop several of our natural abilities to live.

 Corrales 2

My mom says that children today are more awake and have mastered the

technology almost since they are in diapers, but each time they are more hollow and

soulless. Maybe in a way that is what we have been losing, our naturalness and the very

essence of ourselves and of everything. With all the hustle and bustle and the fast-paced

lifestyle we carry, advertising bombards us every second to increase our consumption of

thousands of products easily, quickly and without complications, and access to the

Internet along with all that entails owning it is obvious that it was going to transgress the

human behavior line.

Although I have never been very adept at the world of reading, it is evident how

the quality of writing and of good texts every day is scarcer to find, and with the help of

the Internet to carry out the summary or an essay of a book everything becomes easier,

because instead of reading 300 pages, he looked for an essay or summary of it that helps

me to simplify the reading.

References

Carr, N. Is google making us stupid? The Atlantic. July/August 2008. (pp. 262-269)