Argument -- Is Google Making Us Stupid.

In the argumentive paper, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?," Nicholas Carr proposes that the simplicity of finding information on the Internet has thus turned this generation of people into people whom are impatient and are no longer able to sit for a long period of time and do something constructive. "Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'd always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle." Not only does Carr feel as though he has lost focus when things don't come as easily as they do when searching on google, he also states that some of his friends and acquaintances -- "literary types, most of them" -- are also faced with the same problem. This new development in technology has turned our generation into people that are lazy and spoiled. Once a generation able to sit down and read lengthy works has been subdued to the convenience of google and many other popular search engines. In Carr's article he doesn't find it necessary to go into detail as to what Google is or what it is used for. The simple fact that he can just state what it is and further his thesis with evidence supporting the convenience of Google further emphasizes his point, which is Google is making us stupid.