PLN #3

     "Is Google Making us Stupid" by Nicholas Carr is about this man's opinion on how this instantaneous availability of information via the internet might be having some negative effects on our cognitive though process. This article states that by having information so quickly accessible, we we lose our ability to read a long article. We tend to start thinking in  a way where everything we do has to be quick, precise, efficient. The author says that since he has started using the internet, he no longer can sit down and read a long book the way he used to. Now, he constantly feels like he has to go do something else quickly. This article says also that some scholars conducted a study and they found that the brain is actually changed by people using the internet. Nicholas Carr compares this to A Space Odyssey where the astronaut is unplugging the computer. The AI is pleading with the astronaut to not unplug it. Carr says that this instant info is causing us to become like the artificial intelligence in the movie, machine merely outputting data. "Is Google Making us Stupid" never voices an alternative to the internet, but it suggests some concern.

     "Is Google Making us Stupid" by Nicholas Carr is utter bull (due to PG rating) feces. Quite honestly if the internet is supposedly making us think differently and strive for quicker information, then it's only making us be more efficient as a race. According to this article, the internet is helping us progress and improve our selves. This motivation to achieve quicker isn't bad, it will have us improve everything in our society. Also, the movie comparison proved nothing. This was merely a story for entertainment. The article says that we are headed to being like a computer and computers are going to be more like us like the movie. This is totally impossible. Allow me to explain. A brain is a computer already and always has been. It does math. That's what a computer does. Only math. However, a computer is not a brain. A brain responds to chemicals allowing it to experience genuine emotion, thought, instinct, etc. A computer does not respond to chemicals, only the absence or presence of an open or closed circuit. It has no ability to be 100% adaptive, self sustaining, re-engineering...a brain. I've made my opinion clear about the subject, and I'm sure I have many whom mutually have this thought.