Steve Epting
AP English
Is Google Making Us Stupid? Literary Response
In this article, Is Google Making Us Stupid? it is basically hitting the issue right on the head. We, as Americans, are not thinking like we used to. Now, computers are doing all of the work for us. What used to take people a long amount of time to do research, now only takes a couple of minutes. The internet is “controlling” our brains to not take the time to actually read a book. We are becoming lazy as Americans. We have not been using our brains and we now depend on computers and other resources to do it for us.
When I first heard the title, it really caught my attention. The instant I heard the title, I immediately started to think to myself “Am I lazy?”; “Do I do enough research on class assignments?” This article was a great appeal to pathos because, to me, it caused me to think about what the article was saying. The reason why it was a great appeal to pathos was because of the diction. The way the words were structured explained the whole article well. An example is at the beginning when the writer used the computer as a tool to show us that we are not the only ones being hurt by not doing well- rounded research. That was a great form of writing, because it caught my attention. The overall tone of the article was poignant and pithy. It was precisely meaningful and it strongly affected emotions strongly.
“The variations extend across many regions of the brain, including those that govern such essential cognitive functions as memory and the interpretation of visual and auditory stimuli.” This quote, from the article, is how the brain receives information. People learn different ways but most people learn visually and with auditory. With the internet, we are not getting the full learning compared to if we were learning in school or studying out of a book. The Internet is shaping our thought process, not in a physical sense. When we use the internet as a source co much, we tend to think that is the only way to find research. There are different forms of media such as newspaper, magazine, and television that do the same thing to our thinking but, the internet is the most common. “Midvale steel plant went to work on various metalworking machines, and recorded and timed their every movement as well as the operations of the machines. By breaking down every job into a sequence of small, discrete steps and then testing different ways of performing each one, Taylor created a set of precise instructions.” This describes what happens when we use the internet for our research.
Although there are other forms of media like television that use different programs to share information, the internet is still the worst and it is the most common. Google is not the only search engine that answers questions; there is ask, Google, yahoo, dog pile, and many more. The Internet is a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information, and its legions of programmers are intent on finding the “one best method.” I think that is the best definition of what the internet is. We often search through a lot of different websites trying to find the best answer to our question. The internet is sometimes not a reliable source because sometimes we just type in a question and take the first answer that we think is correct. In earlier years, people did deep reading and research to find answers to different questions. But now, we want everything to be fast and we want it to be efficient.
In conclusion, I think that we should be able to do deep research for our questions to different things. That is the only way we are going to get the answers to our questions, and we can get the background to our research so that we can know more about it. The internet is a great resource, but we shouldn’t rely on it for every question or concern that we have.
AP English
Is Google Making Us Stupid? Literary Response
In this article, Is Google Making Us Stupid? it is basically hitting the issue right on the head. We, as Americans, are not thinking like we used to. Now, computers are doing all of the work for us. What used to take people a long amount of time to do research, now only takes a couple of minutes. The internet is “controlling” our brains to not take the time to actually read a book. We are becoming lazy as Americans. We have not been using our brains and we now depend on computers and other resources to do it for us.
When I first heard the title, it really caught my attention. The instant I heard the title, I immediately started to think to myself “Am I lazy?”; “Do I do enough research on class assignments?” This article was a great appeal to pathos because, to me, it caused me to think about what the article was saying. The reason why it was a great appeal to pathos was because of the diction. The way the words were structured explained the whole article well. An example is at the beginning when the writer used the computer as a tool to show us that we are not the only ones being hurt by not doing well- rounded research. That was a great form of writing, because it caught my attention. The overall tone of the article was poignant and pithy. It was precisely meaningful and it strongly affected emotions strongly.
“The variations extend across many regions of the brain, including those that govern such essential cognitive functions as memory and the interpretation of visual and auditory stimuli.” This quote, from the article, is how the brain receives information. People learn different ways but most people learn visually and with auditory. With the internet, we are not getting the full learning compared to if we were learning in school or studying out of a book. The Internet is shaping our thought process, not in a physical sense. When we use the internet as a source co much, we tend to think that is the only way to find research. There are different forms of media such as newspaper, magazine, and television that do the same thing to our thinking but, the internet is the most common. “Midvale steel plant went to work on various metalworking machines, and recorded and timed their every movement as well as the operations of the machines. By breaking down every job into a sequence of small, discrete steps and then testing different ways of performing each one, Taylor created a set of precise instructions.” This describes what happens when we use the internet for our research.
Although there are other forms of media like television that use different programs to share information, the internet is still the worst and it is the most common. Google is not the only search engine that answers questions; there is ask, Google, yahoo, dog pile, and many more. The Internet is a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information, and its legions of programmers are intent on finding the “one best method.” I think that is the best definition of what the internet is. We often search through a lot of different websites trying to find the best answer to our question. The internet is sometimes not a reliable source because sometimes we just type in a question and take the first answer that we think is correct. In earlier years, people did deep reading and research to find answers to different questions. But now, we want everything to be fast and we want it to be efficient.
In conclusion, I think that we should be able to do deep research for our questions to different things. That is the only way we are going to get the answers to our questions, and we can get the background to our research so that we can know more about it. The internet is a great resource, but we shouldn’t rely on it for every question or concern that we have.
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