Though I agree with many of Carr's arguments and points about shorter attention span, I think that affects more those generations that computers and internet was introduced to them already as adults. Though I'm sure there are many studies to be conducted, I am quite sure the effects on them will have been less positive than on those who grew up with the internet.
The internet offers a wide range of people access to thing that they may have bever been able to know. Though there are still rural areas in which there is no internet access at home, there are internet centers and cafes where those poeple, who might be mikes away from a library or consider libraries tedious, can go and search and learn new things.
We, as internet users, must be smart in the way we use the internet because the internet is only there to help us.
My favorite was your last sentence. I think that it is a great point to be made. Google is a valuable tool that is placed at many of our fingertips. We need to use it for our advantage. As your point says, that was why Google was created in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI also really liked your last sentence. I agree that Google is what the user makes of it. I also liked that you included people in rural areas without internet as an argument. "Google it" is a very common phrase that can be used in many situations, including academic ones.
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I think that it is very important that we use the internet in a smart way. It is there to help us with many things, but we must also be very careful in how we use it and what we use it for. The internet and google is full of information but it is not all completely reliable.
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