RHETORICAL ANALYSIS- “IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUDPID”
The world of internet has made the flow of information very easy and the entire globe is just a click away from you. But there has started surfacing a school of thoughts which believes that availability of vast sea of information on the internet using search engines like GOOGLE is also making people foolish. Nicholas Carr, the writer of this article belongs to same school of thoughts. His belief is that excessive use of GOOGLE is replacing our power of contemplation with lethargic approach of just achieving efficiency and saving the time. Nicholas Carr who has already published books like ‘The Shallows’ has often criticized the idea of overdependence on internet. This article, ‘Is Google making us Foolish’, published …show more content…
The research showing the “skimming activity” (Carr, 3) in a research conducted in University college London establishes his Ethos more profoundly when it is supported by scientific evidence. It helps in forming an image in the readers’ mind that the writer is well read and has done extensive research about his argument. Whether it’s the mentioning of Alex Turing’s paper which talked about “how a digital computer can be programmed to perform the function of any other information-processing device” (Carr, 6) or it’s the example of the mechanical clock as illustrated by Joseph Weizenbaum,” in deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our own senses and started obeying clock” (Carr, 6), Carr has able to support and substantially give weightage to his thoughts very skillfully like an experience writer. The pathos that he uses in the article is also very lucid and vivid and engages the imagination and emotions of the readers. When he uses the expressions like “dragging his wayward brain back” or when he compares himself with a scuba diver when he used to read the printed pages and how he has been reduced to a guy who merely
The world of internet has made the flow of information very easy and the entire globe is just a click away from you. But there has started surfacing a school of thoughts which believes that availability of vast sea of information on the internet using search engines like GOOGLE is also making people foolish. Nicholas Carr, the writer of this article belongs to same school of thoughts. His belief is that excessive use of GOOGLE is replacing our power of contemplation with lethargic approach of just achieving efficiency and saving the time. Nicholas Carr who has already published books like ‘The Shallows’ has often criticized the idea of overdependence on internet. This article, ‘Is Google making us Foolish’, published …show more content…
The research showing the “skimming activity” (Carr, 3) in a research conducted in University college London establishes his Ethos more profoundly when it is supported by scientific evidence. It helps in forming an image in the readers’ mind that the writer is well read and has done extensive research about his argument. Whether it’s the mentioning of Alex Turing’s paper which talked about “how a digital computer can be programmed to perform the function of any other information-processing device” (Carr, 6) or it’s the example of the mechanical clock as illustrated by Joseph Weizenbaum,” in deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our own senses and started obeying clock” (Carr, 6), Carr has able to support and substantially give weightage to his thoughts very skillfully like an experience writer. The pathos that he uses in the article is also very lucid and vivid and engages the imagination and emotions of the readers. When he uses the expressions like “dragging his wayward brain back” or when he compares himself with a scuba diver when he used to read the printed pages and how he has been reduced to a guy who merely