Support Analysis Kramer

"Is Google making us stupid?"

  • When reading long articles, concentration diminishes
    • Online researching rather than print sources
      • Evidence
      • Activate reasoning
  • The internet has become a universal medium
    • Immediate access to a wide-range source of information
      • Evidence
      • Activate reasoning
  • When people spend time online, they are less focused
    • Writer's friends and acquaintances experience diminished concentration levels due to prolonged periods of online use
      • Evidence
      • Activate reasoning
  • Different kind of reading now
    • Text messaging and internet
      • Evidence and illustration
      • Activate reasoning and Evoke emotion
  • Reading is not an instinctive skill for humans
    • We have to translate the symbolic characters we see into the language we understand
      • Evidence
      • Activate reasoning
  • The human's brain is infinitely malleable
    • The brain can alter the way it functions, basically reprogramming itself
      • Evidence
      • Activate reasoning
  • Internet programmed to perform the function of any other information-processing device
    • The Internet scatters our attention and diffuses our concentration because it absorbs a medium
      • Evidence and illustration
      • Activate reasoning and evoke emotion
  • Influence of Internet doesn't end at edge of computer screen
    • Traditional media have to adapt to the audience's new expectations
      • Illustration
      • Activate reasoning and evoke emotion
  • Google
    • Information is a kind of Commodity
      • Verification and illustration
      • Activate reasoning
  • Builds artificial intelligence
    • The idea that our minds should operate like high speed data processing machines
      • Illustration
      • Activate reasoning and evoke emotion
  • Network's business model
    • They gain more information about us by the links we click on, Google and others will use that information for business
      • Verification
      • Activate reasoning
  • Socrates deplored development of writing
    • He feared that as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would "cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful"
      • Evidence
      • Evoke emotion
  • Arrival of Gutenberg's printing press sparked more debate
    • Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectual laziness and weaken minds
      • Evidence
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  • "Deep reading is undistinguished from deep thinking"
    • In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas
      • Illustration
      • Evoke emotion
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