Countering on my own

I initially thought that it would be difficult to counter or forward something in my own writing. But as I began to read through my blogs I found that it would be a simple task that required a little more thought than usual.

            The blog that I will be revising addresses Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid.” In this blog post, I agree with Carr’s point that Google is essentially turning our brains to over efficient tools and I even can note that I have the same experience that he has had when reading. To revise this blog post, I’m going to use the countering technique as demonstrated by Harris. After reading several more articles after this one, I have changed my opinion on how the Internet is affecting our brains. In the blog post, I briefly summarize Carr’s main points and give a personal example. To counter, I am going to give a personal example of when the Internet is beneficial to our brains and then make the point that the Internet might actually be good for us despite what Carr thinks.

           

            Although Carr definitely makes a good point that the Internet is negatively affecting our brains, I feel as though he left out the other side of the story. Can the Internet actually help us process information faster by allowing us to review more texts in a shorter amount of time?  I think so. Carr could have easily given an example similar to the one I am about to give: while writing a paper, I typically will have all of the sources I plan to use in front of me, whether it be a book or several Internet sources opened on my computer screen. I usually will open the text I plan to cite and skim it quickly for the example I need. Typically, I find it within a few minutes of viewing the text. I have found over my writing career that it is becoming much faster and easier to find the example I need from texts I will use in my writing. Is this the result of interaction with the Internet? Carr points out that the Internet is making our brains programmed for efficiency and immediacy. If this were true, would this example be a result of constant Internet use? I believe so. One can easily apply Carr’s idea of how the Internet is shaping our brains to examples like the one I mentioned above.