PLN #3 (Is Google Making Us Stupid?)

                                                                                                               

   The article "Is Google Making us Stupid?" written by Nicholas Carr, they enlighten the reader how much the world has changed thanks to internet and computers (electronics). Mr. Carr explains and proves how the world has changed since the 1800's. He interviews and researches over 10 people, stories and books that speak about the same topic. Maryanne Wolf, writer of Proust and the Squid: The Story And Science of the Reading Brain, says, "We are not what we read, we are how we read." She is stating that your life depends on the way you learn. Such as, if you read on a nook, you like and believe in technology. If you read hardbacks, or paperbacks, you are more traditional. Friedrich Nietzsche, a writer back in the 1820's, use to hand write his work. After type writers came out, he bought one, and his friends noticed a change in his writing. "Your writing is already graphic and 'terse prose' , but now it is even more so." He explains that working on the type writer made his eyes tired and he didn't have near as much patience as with his own paper and pen. Carr believes that, "The brain is almost infenitly malleable. People use to think that our mental mesh work, was largely fixed by the time we reach adulthood." A Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist, observed that in the book, Computer Power and Human Reason, written 1976, states that even timekeeping has gone electronic, in to sleep, to eat, to work, to rise, we stopped listening to our senses and listened to the clock. Fredrick Winslow Taylor celebrated his 1911 treaties, The Principles of Scientific Management,was to identify and adopt, for every job, the "one best method" of work and thereby to effect "The gradual substitution of science for rule of thumb throughout the mechanic arts." Overall, the article clearly states how the internet has affected our country's, our cities, our lives, and the world. 
   I strongly agree with this article. Total 100% is correct in my opinion. I'm not saying that internet is bad... "Ban Internet!" No! I wouldn't be me without the internet. But, it has affected millions of lives. People never can sit through  book anymore. I even find myself putting down books sooner than I normally would. As Maryanne Wolf says, "We are not what we read, but how we read", tells me that in a way, we have become electronic. No, we have not become robots. I am simply stating that it is crucial now to have some sort of entertainment. People now have to depend on other things to stay occupied. People are losing there imagination slowly, letting it die and rot as you become older. Except for those who still read. I have spoken to people who say, "I'm a little embarrassed to say this, but I love to role play! I love to be the dragon banished for being good. Or the mermaid who makes peoples life miserable, or a pirate, or...". Those are the people who don't spend 3 hours a day in front of a computer or IPhone. I love the internet and couldn't live without it... there you have it. I just proved in that statement that I, and all the million's out there couldn't survive without Google.