Google Gaggle

"As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation."

The quote above from "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr is theorizing that by using the internet often, the way a person thinks is slowly being changed in a way that makes concentrating and contemplating for a time longer than a few minutes to a half hour very hard. The brain no longer wants a lengthy explanation of an event or story, but instead only wants the important snid-bits. Carr says that Google, along with other internet devices, is condensing the function of the mind by providing it with the information it wants in seconds. Hyperlinks allow a person to skip between pages at such a fast speed that a person could get the gist of a topic in a minute or two, and then can go onto another topic.

Sure, this is very possible and it can happen, there is no doubt about that. But my question about this is: If Carr knows this is happening to his mind, why doesn't he turn of the computer for a while, and get out into the world? My biggest problem with the internet is it is becoming its own little world. There are relationships, separate lives, different information, etc. on the internet that detach everyone from the real world. It is very possible that the internet is making humans stupid. So here is a solution, get off the internet! Only use it for the necessities of use. Like checking your bank account or e-mailing your parents in Virginia. People don't need the internet for news, games, relationships, or entertainment. There are news channels and news papers, sports and gyms, friends and family (By the way, phones are good for talking to people in different states too, not just e-mail), and movie theatres and bowling allies. There is no good reason to be on the computer 24/7, people are just lazy. Which is going to destroy us in the end.

It may be possible that we are almost at the end of the world, in my eyes the human race deserves it. If we don't start getting off our computers and helping out our planet we will all perish.

Sorry about going off topic, but anyway. Yes, Google may be making us stupid, but it's our own fault, we can't blame the technology for our use of it.