Post by stephanietapia on Aug 8, 2011 20:10:55 GMT -5
We are pancake people. Nicholas Carr's essay, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", includes Richard Foreman, who says, "we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.” It amazes me that with just a touch of a button, we are introduced to an extraordinary different world. We choose to touch that button, it is our decision. Whether it's because we want to read about something or if it's because we need to find a last minute quote for a homework assignment.
Google is primarily the number one search engine. It gives us the opportunity to search whatever we want without being judged, it answers our questions, provides facts, and not only does it gives us a print version of our search, but also a visual. It is simply information being passed into our brains, and from there on out it is our choice as to what we decide to keep in.
I find myself staring at the colors blue, red, orange, blue, green, and red. Today it is just that, six colored letters that spell out Google. In the past and the future it may be a visual abstract art piece, or a symbol representing someone who changed the world in the past. It is well proven fact that there were many who changed the world. Carr mentioned a few inventions, the mechanical clock, steam engine, and the printing press. What do they all have in common? They were all invented by men, without Google. I have no doubt that many of the futures inventions could come to be, without todays technology. Yes i'm sure it would be tempting to use it, but why? If people were able to back then, why can't they today? In Carr's essay, Frederick Winslow Taylor declared,“In the past the man has been first, in the future the system must be first.” I disagree with Taylor because as humans, we should never let technology take over what the human is capable of doing. Yes, technology has helped and changed many lives, and I must confess, that I could not spend a day without it. My point is that without the knowledge of humans, technology would not exist.
Carr says,"The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive." The idea of our brains being like a computer kinda scares me. I mean if I spend all this time in front of it then why would I be scared? It's because as a search engine, Google is vulnerable. It gives us the information we want in specific terms without asking for anything in return. Why? Because it already has everything, so we think. No, I don't think Google is making us stupid. Either we let it or we don't. Google may be able to collect information from what we search and be able to feed us advertisements, but it will never have the natural knowledge that humans will always have.
Google is primarily the number one search engine. It gives us the opportunity to search whatever we want without being judged, it answers our questions, provides facts, and not only does it gives us a print version of our search, but also a visual. It is simply information being passed into our brains, and from there on out it is our choice as to what we decide to keep in.
I find myself staring at the colors blue, red, orange, blue, green, and red. Today it is just that, six colored letters that spell out Google. In the past and the future it may be a visual abstract art piece, or a symbol representing someone who changed the world in the past. It is well proven fact that there were many who changed the world. Carr mentioned a few inventions, the mechanical clock, steam engine, and the printing press. What do they all have in common? They were all invented by men, without Google. I have no doubt that many of the futures inventions could come to be, without todays technology. Yes i'm sure it would be tempting to use it, but why? If people were able to back then, why can't they today? In Carr's essay, Frederick Winslow Taylor declared,“In the past the man has been first, in the future the system must be first.” I disagree with Taylor because as humans, we should never let technology take over what the human is capable of doing. Yes, technology has helped and changed many lives, and I must confess, that I could not spend a day without it. My point is that without the knowledge of humans, technology would not exist.
Carr says,"The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive." The idea of our brains being like a computer kinda scares me. I mean if I spend all this time in front of it then why would I be scared? It's because as a search engine, Google is vulnerable. It gives us the information we want in specific terms without asking for anything in return. Why? Because it already has everything, so we think. No, I don't think Google is making us stupid. Either we let it or we don't. Google may be able to collect information from what we search and be able to feed us advertisements, but it will never have the natural knowledge that humans will always have.