Analysing two articles on how the Internet is affecting how people think.

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Justyna Kleszcz

Out of class essay 2

In the essay "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", Nicholas Carr argues that using the Internet has a negative influence on the public's intelligence. By using his own experience, that of friends, and scientific evidence, Carr's main argument is that the Internet has a negative effect on concentration. However, in the essay "The Virtual Barrio @ The Other Frontier", Guillermo Gomez-Pena describes the relationship between Mexicans and technology. He argues their culture, lack of access, and language barriers keep them away from using technology. Carr and Gomez-Pena write that the Internet and technology are indeed responsible for changes in people's lives.

Carr notes his personal example as proof that the Internet changed his way of thinking. "Over the past few years I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. I'm not thinking the way I used to think." (Carr 533) He feels that something is changing in his brain and it is not working as it used to work.

Carr admits that people's reading skills change when they use the Internet.