Onward and Upward

                                                         To Infinity And Beyond

Is Google making us stupid? To me, this is equivalent to asking whether dictionaries make us stupid! The answer is a resounding no. What Nicholas Carr, an Atlantic Magazine journalist attempts to convey in his long winded article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What The Internet Is Doing To OurBrains” the notion that the internet is causing irreversible change to a person’s attention span, and ability to focus. Consequently, deep, comprehensive reading is yielding to the quicker skimming approach, similar to that of an internet browser. Accordingly, the internet is the culprit, just the same as the first clock, the first written transcriptions of ancient Greek philosophy, and the typewriter. Whether you realize it or not, computers already have an invaluable footprint on you daily life. All road vehicles are managed by a power control module (PCM). Traffic lights are controlled with an automated system. The magnetic strip and microchip on your credit card enable them to be accessed by computers. All cell phones are computers. Life as we know it has been irreversibly changed by computers. A person’s bad habits, developed by surfing the net, that perhaps have unintentionally permeated into other psychological realms, are not a justifiable reason to step backwards on the progression of computers or any technologies.