What The Internet is Doing to Our Brains?

So after reading the article by Nicholas Carr, I would like to say that I disagree with most of the things he said. The only thing that I found I agree with is this statement made by Carr, “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”—the perfect algorithm…” I don’t think that the internet is doing anything bad to our brains or hurting it in any way. Instead, I think the internet is actually helping us. When we look up something, I think it is giving us the most efficient answer that in the end will benefit us. The internet is giving us the “one best method” or answer to each of our questions. I know that some may argue that sometimes the internet just leads us in the wrong direction by giving. Yet, in return I think that out of all the possible answer in the world, the internet is narrowing it down for us.

In addition, I believe that without the internet, life would be hard to get through for most of us. I’m not saying that without it the human race is stupid and useless, its just that the internet allows us to use our time wisely and most efficiently. Imagine looking up information for a research project. It would be so much easier using the internet then going to the library alone. By using the internet the researcher is able to find several sources for the information he is looking for, but say if he was to go to a library he may only be able to find one book on his subject.

Overall, I guess I’m trying to say that even though Nicholas Carr wrote an amazing article; in my personal opinion I fully disagree with what he have to say about what the internet or technology is doing to our brains.