The Age of Google {cat 4.5}

Collecting data is part of human history, long before the age of the internet the only ways to gain information was either to read it or hear it. Although these tools have not change the method of how we get the data has. Now in today’s world have access to more information than ever before thanks to the internet. You can find out about anything from how to deep fry a turkey to what year was the first car was built all that knowledge is simply a few keystroke away But now that we have easy access to all this knowledge the question that many people are asking is does that make us smarter or does make lazy. In the article “is Google making us stupid?” author Nicholas Carr explores that question.


In the article that author states that the age of the internet has spoiled us; now that we have access to all this information we have lazy in knowledge seeking. Carr say that intelligent is not judged on how fast you gain knowledge but how well you understand it. Carr state that these entire search engines prove more this distractions than information with all the ads on their web site and with all these distraction you are able hold to the knowledge you find.

I believe that mister Carr has point; I always believe that knowledge should be earned through hard work. It like they always say it not the destination it the journey that matters. I think it that journey to information that let you keep allow me to explain. In High school one of classes I always struggle in was biology. In the beginning of the class I couldn’t understand any of terms it the book. During the in class lectures I couldn’t keep up with the other students in the class and on the first test I took score any 35 out of 100 let just say my mother was to happy with that score. Now normal I pick up on most things pretty quickly but with this class I was slow. My teacher offer to give me some help after school; I spend hours with her going over terms, doing extra credit work and more. Slowly my grades when up from a F to a respectable C+. The point I am trying to make is that because that hard work a lot of the knowledge I receive from her I still remember to this day.

Carr also state that search engine prove more distractions then answers and with those distractions you unable to retain the knowledge you gain. This statement is true because of the way the net works. All search engines are free web sites the way they genrate capital to maintain themselves is by posting Ads on their sites.