Reading these articles made me a little angry inside. Nicholas Carr, and James Bowman the authors of the articles “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “Is Stupid Making Us Google” are writers of the older generation writing articles about how we college students, the younger generation, are stupid, have poor attention spans, and are going to be the first generation not to out achieve the generation before them. You know what? Their generation is full of haters. They are jealous that we can get three proper sources for our research paper sitting in a heated room on our laptops using “Google” in like two seconds. When the authors were kids they had to walk through a blizzard uphill both ways, across town to the library and find by hand, sifting through a hundred books to find the right source. Just because our generation has never been to a library and can’t use the dewy decimal system does not mean we are stupid. We are way smarter than that. Our generation puts everything on the internet so everyone in our generation can find it; this just makes finding information so much easier therefore making us smarter. The articles would disagree with me because both articles stated we perform a lot worse on hard fact and numerical tests than the older generation. Guess what? The world has changed a ton since the generation of these writers. We don’t need to be good at crunching numbers and remembering facts. We have calculators and the internet to do that for us so we can focus on creating the next big thing. The older generation won’t be making fun of us when we settle on Mars.
Doug, haters are gonna hate... I know you're a bright individual. We're the new and improved generation so there's no need to worry. Technology is a good thing, and you can never have too much of a good thing right? I use Google everyday, either to find out a fact, or to learn how to spell something correctly. They're just jealous because they had to use an actual dictionary.
ReplyDeleteI was a little angry to when the author came at our generation. In a way i see where he is coming from but most people don't realize the good that comes from this technology. All they do is focus on the negative aspects, and that is very unfair to us brilliant JMU students.
ReplyDeleteI like your take on the articles. I feel as though it is not an argument of who is smarter, but rather both sides should understand that there are just simply going to be differences from one generation to the next with the rise in technology. I can also see where you're coming from with the jealousy perspective.
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