Support Analysis Hamnes
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
- It's harder to immerse yourself in reading
- Now we can search the web for anything, making it a lot harder to sit down and read, when you can just google it in a matter of seconds
- Spend a lot more time on the web, surfing and searching
- Research that once took days of reading can now be done in minutes
- Evidence/Active Reasoning
- The Net is becoming a universal medium
- Everyone has access to the internet
- Our minds now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles
- Evidence/Active Reasoning
- A lot of people feel the same way, that it is harder to concentrate on reading
- When he mentioned his troubles with reading to his friends-literary types-most of them say they're having the same problem
- The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing
- Evidence/Active Reasoning
- New methods of reading
- Text messaging
- Internet
- Television programs add text crawls and pop up ads, and magazines and newspapers shorten their articles, introduce capsule summaries, and crowd their pages with easy-to-browse info snippets
- Evidence/Active Reasoning
- Google has the answer for everything
- Type anything in and it will provide you with information
- Universally acceptable
- You can find anything on Google
- Illustration/Building Credibility