"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr speaks poorly about the horrors of technological progression. His closing statement reads “as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.” Carr fails to recognize how informational accessibility leads to an expansion in creativity in society. By looking toward the future we can begin to see a generation whose digital lives greatly influence their everyday lives. This is not necessarily a bad thing when you consider how intelligent our society is becoming. In life everything is ever-changing and so is intelligence. What we considered “smart” in the 50’s is not what we consider “smart” to be today. Now in colleges students learn about Nano technology and petroleum engineering as opposed to English or math. This is because of how easy information is to access. Why waste our time memorizing random senseless facts when we can pull up information on a smart phone. This is the same thing myself and my peers did in order to complete this assignment. Why go to a library to find an article when theyre readily available online? Instead we can explore new avenues of study in order to accomplish goals such as curing disease, poverty, and corruption. We are not becoming “less intelligent,” in fact I’d say our society is becoming more and more intelligent. According to futurists the merging of what is artificial and what is organic will occur and the line between the two will be blurred. If this is so then maybe our society will also change from this mechanical corrupt structure to a harmoniously coexisting being. As a whole we might one day solve these problems in order to better humankind. After all this is all speculation and as history has taught us the future can be quite unpredictable but as Malcolm X said “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” So what’s the harm in trying?