Carr's.."is google making us stupid"

In Nicholas Carr " is google making us stupid" the article's concern is technology, in this case how the internet is distracting us from ourselfs. There are statements that can be controversial pointing out his ideas and his different point of views. Ideas of how technology is taking over our way of thinking and is changing our way of doing things. Eventhough he admits the web is a godsend to him, he states working on computers has changed the way of learning from the past. " The instrument we now use affects the way we work." Stating that the net affects our attention and that is a distraction to us. One of Carr's arguments is that eventhough in this new era writing is done more than in the past; it is not doing us much good because online reading or texting leads to not being able to concentrate well enough to read long articles, or something that requieres more thinking. "The way of reading from the net is what worries." In order to strengthen his ideas Carr has people that support his thoughts and point of views. One of them is Maryanne Wolf who is a development psychologist at Tifts University and the author of Proust and the Squid: Story and science of reading brain. Wolf along with Carr imply that the style of reading promoted by the net makes it "efficient" instead of deep reading. In other words they believe that it is better to read a book or even a newspaper than to go online and power browse and go directly to the information you need. When reading a book it requires more attention and a better way of thinking. Eventhough Carr and Wolf are well sure about this, I believe any type of reading that we do is good for ourselves. Comparing our era to the past, there were people back in time who did not read books, maybe because they didn't like it, and these days there still are people like that, but now, it's easier to read a text from a cell phone than to read an entire book. The people from previous generations that did not read books never read anything and nowadyas those people at least read short pieces of text. I believe reading something is better than reading nothing.                                                                                           Eventhough Carr's ideas can be controversial, I would point out that indeed some are very supportive and in some way true. I do believe that not everything we read online has helped our reading skills. There are pages like bookrags.com where you can find any book's summary, instead of reading the entire book, students find it a lot easier to go online and read a quick summary about it, this leading to poor literature. As time passes technology keeps increasing day by day. Like it or not, it's around us, we all need it, and we all use it everyday.