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"Is Google Making Us Stupid" by Nicholas Carr is a truly thought provoking article. It goes over how the effects of the speed at which humans are now accessing information through the internet is actually changing the way we think. Instead of having to ponder information until we find an answer, we can now access it in seconds through the internet therby making us not obtain the information. This matters to me because, personally, I want to be able to read a book when I get older and get something out of it. I don't want to mindlessly speed through the information like it is nothing. For me, it is like reading the summary of the book but not the actual book. When you read the summary, you don't gain as much information. When you read the book, the information you gain is considerably higher. If you read the answer on the computer screen, you won't get the same amount of information as you would if you were to actually read the 'why' part of the article. This matters to the world because we need to obtain information. You have to have the information to understand it. We have the information, we are just too lazy as world to delve deeper and actually understand what you are reading. How will the world think in a thousand years if the typewriter, a common machine not used for anything but typing, had a noticeable effect on someone? We are now dealing with a machine that gives us the already typed information! I wonder the differences we have from the people back then! This matters to education because we use the internet a lot in education. We type, blog, and learn of the internet. If students get the answer to a question, but don't actually understand it, we will become stupid. We will become a generation that learned the answers but not the explanations! The article made it clear the differences in our society today due to the internet. So is the internet making us stupid or the human tendency to be lazy?