Is Google Making Us stupid ?

Is Google Making Us stupid ? was written by Nicholas Carr, who writes on the social, economic, and business implications of technology.  In this essay, Carr argues that the Internet is having a disturbing effect on our cognitive activities - the work of our brains. Therefore, the author speculated effects in the essay. In genera, Carr stated that the Internet would weaken our capacity for the kind of deep reading, change people's minds and thoughts, and people might become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine in the end. These are three main effects Internet has on our cognitive activities.

To make this essay credible and make more people be aware of the dangerous  of Internet, the authors used several ethos, pathos, and logos. First, Carr gave several examples and researches of his personal experience and academic resources to shows people that people almost totally lost the abilities to read, and absorb a longish article on web or in print. Specifically, he took himself, his friends, and even a pathologist of Michigan Medical School as examples, and they had the similarly experience that they had to pay much attention and energy so that they can focus on long pieces of writing. Besides, the author showed the results of long-term neurological and psychological experiments that many people go online to avoid reading in traditional sense. More, he used the words of a developmental psychologist at Tufts University to state that we are losing the abilities of interpreting text and making the rich mental connections. Thus, all of those credibly began Carr's theme he would discuss next. 

Second, Carr put pathos to argue that the human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard driver. He criticized the idea that our minds should operate as high-speed  date processing machines is built both into the workings of the Internet and the network's reigning business model. Because the faster we surf across the Web- the more links we click and pages we views, the more economic interest and profits was created for the business companies. Plus, Carr also represented his emotion in the last paragraph that he afraid of the fact that people people work as machines without thoughts, and it is our own intelligence that flattens in artificial intelligence. 

Third, to explain why people's minds would be changed by Internet, Carr used logos. In the beginning, he stated that people's brains can be taught to work differently in some cases. Then Carr gave the example of Friedrich Nietzche, who bought a typewriter to help his writing. But the tool took part in the forming of his thoughts. In this case, Carr reveal the point that human brain is always infinitely malleable in some cases such as a new tool. Similarly, since Internet is a communication system that plays so many roles in our lives, and people rely on it whenever and wherever, the author stated that people' s minds are gradually become attuned to the crazy quilt of Internet media, traditional media have to adapt to the audience's new expectations. In other words, the Internet is reprogramming us today. Till now, we have to admit that our minds can be changed in some ways by his statements. Therefore, Carr was able to logically describe how do people become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine due to the reprogramming of our minds.