Is Google Making Us Stupid?

1.    In this article, the author talks about his recent notice of having trouble stay focused when reading and researching for his writing. He believes his use of the Internet has affected the way his brain works causing his research to be harder to focus on for long periods of time.

2.    The Internet does not allow us to really research.  We are only briefly researching ideas opposed to digging deeper into research.

3.    Literacy, in this article, is defined the same as “Socrates Nightmare”. Literacy is being able to read further into something as opposed to briefly looking over something.

4.    The definitions are similar because they are both referring to the same thing.

5.    According to this article, people are now just briefly viewing research opposed to reading in depth to something.  Certain research has shown people to only stay on a website for a few minutes before clicking on another website. This jumping around and not being able to focus on one thing is the mentality people are now doing.

6.    The author gave examples of his own personal experience, Friedrich Neitzsche and the typewriter, and many quotes from researchers.

7.    Yes, the evidence he gives all backs up his theory and gives experiences and scientific evidence proving his theory.

8.    The answer to the so what is the fact that the Internet is making research easy is only hurting our ability to research and grow intellectually.