Some years back, the writer Nicholas Carr touched off a storm of controversy with his article about the internet “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (linked below). It’s a controversy that rages still today. Carr argues that the internet has changed our brains, and that the change is very much for the worse. Because we now spend so much time surfing the web for information and entertainment, Carr contends, we’re losing our ability to concentrate and to contemplate: we no longer know how to think deeply and seriously, according to Carr; and as a result our thinking has become broad but very, very shallow. Of course, there are other observers who disagree with Carr, like writer David Wolman (below).
Please read Carr’s essay and Wolman’s response: Based on your own experience and those of people you know, do you believe that our use of the internet is diminishing our capacity to think? Why or why not?

Some years back, the writer Nicholas Carr touched off a storm of controversy with his article about the internet “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (linked below). It’s a controversy that rages still today. Carr argues that the internet has changed our brains, and that the change is very much for the worse. Because we now spend so much time surfing the web for information and entertainment, Carr contends, we’re losing our ability to concentrate and to contemplate: we no longer know how to think deeply and seriously, according to Carr; and as a result our thinking has become broad but very, very shallow. Of course, there are other observers who disagree with Carr, like writer David Wolman (below).
Please read Carr’s essay and Wolman’s response, and then, by noon (Mountain Time) on Wednesday, post your response to this question: Based on your own experience and those of people you know, do you believe that our use of the internet is diminishing our capacity to think? Why or why not?
• Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (Links to an external site.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
• David Wolman, “The Critics Need a Reboot. The Internet Hasn’t Led Us into a New Dark Age.” (Links to an external site.)
https://www.wired.com/2008/08/st-essay-21/