Technological invention is now one of the most basic motivations in developing the human society. But some worries are growing along with more and more technologies, especially the digital technologies, because a lot of intellectuals assume that technologies is changing human’s mind and these changes probably are not all positive. Nicholas Carr, as a member of these intellectuals, uses his personal experiences to tell some similar ideas in his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid”. According his essay, the convenience from development of technologies is changing our minds, and probably destroying our abilities of dependent thinking. Obviously, Carr ignores the positive impacts of technology which are more effective than the negative impacts he…show more content… Carr’s concern about the impacts of technology, especially the impacts of Digital technology such as the Internet, is that these impacts would change our minds in a negative way. The core phenomenon Carr expressed is shown in the decreasing patience and separated focus of our mind and he claim that it causes by the convenience of the Internet. In addition, the commercial activities of the Internet industry is extending the convenience attempting. The possible result by this growing phenomenon in the further future, “our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines,” (Carr, 338) exactly is what really make Carr scares. Carr’s worries is reasonable, but it seems like an over concern. One of the evidences is that the annual amount of publish papers is still growing in a high speed. Obviously, The benefit of the Internet, such as effective research methods, lower pressure in calculation and memories, and widely discussing platforms have filled the gap caused by the distraction of our minds. Meanwhile, the Internet gives the digital generation the critical thinking and open eyes further beyond any other generations. As Carr mentions in the end of “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Plato and Socrates feared because they were “shortsighted”. We can’t reject that our fear probably depends on the same reason, we are
