Post by rollinsgrubbs on Aug 7, 2011 20:35:31 GMT -5
Is Google making us stupid? I must concur with author Nicholas Carr that as we continue to search for information quickly due to the modern technology we have at our fingertips, our minds are slowly being reformatted. However, does that make us stupid? I most certainly object. As long as we continue to be proactive in what we do with the information we obtain with haste, the human race will continue to thrive and expand its intelligence. Thus being said, every single piece of information found needs to be stored and regarded wisely.
With the power of the web at our fingertips now, research that used to take hours or even days in libraries going through stacks upon stacks and pages upon pages of books now takes no more than a few clicks and seconds and we discard the information due to the lack of work it took to obtain it as well as the fact that it would only take the same process to find it again. This is exactly the type of frivolous thinking that we as a race need to take all measures avoid at any cost. Again, people should be proactive and take advantage of all knowledge available to them.
Unfortunately, people’s carelessness affects not only themselves but also society. Yes, the internet may save mass amounts of time and also be efficient in terms of reducing time to obtain knowledge, but it’s also lowering the amount of information displayed in non-electronic media such as newspapers and magazines as Mr. Carr has stated. Doing so not only reduces paper-acquired knowledge, but also occupations and increases in revenue due to cutbacks in prime knowledge real-estate and thus more room for advertisements. Obviously our wireless world maintains its positive benefits as well as its drawbacks.
Mr. Carr presents a very valid point of “maintaining quiet spaces”, in order to prevent sacrificing “something important not only in our selves but in our culture” such as, as Mr. Richard Foreman so excellently phrased it, “the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality…” The fact of the matter is that if we allow technology to rule us and continue to take the knowledge we obtain for granted, we will in fact loose our “highly educated and articulate personality” as it will have become forever lost in the vast void that is the world wide web or cyberspace, if you will.
Is the computer world beginning to spread it’s wiring through us? Essentially, yes. However, as it begins its steady take-over of the human race, it must build itself around our motherboard and our central processing unit, allowing us to still be the brains behind the operation. . Hopefully humans will appreciate the grace of the machine and use it as a tool instead of as a crutch. We simply need to continue to realize the one fact that man will remain in control over machine, maintaining peace on earth as time keeps on slipping into the future.
With the power of the web at our fingertips now, research that used to take hours or even days in libraries going through stacks upon stacks and pages upon pages of books now takes no more than a few clicks and seconds and we discard the information due to the lack of work it took to obtain it as well as the fact that it would only take the same process to find it again. This is exactly the type of frivolous thinking that we as a race need to take all measures avoid at any cost. Again, people should be proactive and take advantage of all knowledge available to them.
Unfortunately, people’s carelessness affects not only themselves but also society. Yes, the internet may save mass amounts of time and also be efficient in terms of reducing time to obtain knowledge, but it’s also lowering the amount of information displayed in non-electronic media such as newspapers and magazines as Mr. Carr has stated. Doing so not only reduces paper-acquired knowledge, but also occupations and increases in revenue due to cutbacks in prime knowledge real-estate and thus more room for advertisements. Obviously our wireless world maintains its positive benefits as well as its drawbacks.
Mr. Carr presents a very valid point of “maintaining quiet spaces”, in order to prevent sacrificing “something important not only in our selves but in our culture” such as, as Mr. Richard Foreman so excellently phrased it, “the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality…” The fact of the matter is that if we allow technology to rule us and continue to take the knowledge we obtain for granted, we will in fact loose our “highly educated and articulate personality” as it will have become forever lost in the vast void that is the world wide web or cyberspace, if you will.
Is the computer world beginning to spread it’s wiring through us? Essentially, yes. However, as it begins its steady take-over of the human race, it must build itself around our motherboard and our central processing unit, allowing us to still be the brains behind the operation. . Hopefully humans will appreciate the grace of the machine and use it as a tool instead of as a crutch. We simply need to continue to realize the one fact that man will remain in control over machine, maintaining peace on earth as time keeps on slipping into the future.