Toulmin Model of Why Google is Making Us Stupid

Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr is an article on how the internet has increased our knowledge, yet is distracting us from a quest of deep understanding of what we are reading. Carr's claim in his article is that online search engines are allowing us to become lazy with our reading to a point where instead of ones eyes glued to the screen one finds him or herself giving any excuse to stop absorbing letters on a page. The main point coincides with this when Carr states "I'm not thinking the way I used to". Our minds have adapted to our technological advances and why would we want to turn back to endless hours in the library when it would be just as convenient sitting on the comfort of our couches. An example of Carr's support for his opening statement is that "the Net has become a universal medium". Most cultures have embraced Google, it sure saves the day when it takes minutes to discover all the information you could ever want. Evidence Carr introduces is a quote by Scott Karp, an online blogger, who said "he has stopped reading books altogether". Another fact from Carr is stated "When we read online, she says, we tend to become 'mere decoders of information'" of Maryanne Wolf. Another reason is "The mechanical clock" says Carr, we must have a specific way to be able to plan our entire day around a specific time- keeper. Carr later refers to the internet as our "Map" a human instinct to always rush to a computer, so many things can be done on these mesmerizing machines that they become our warrants, the computer appeals to the human brain, just as Google intended it to. For example: "The company has declared that its mission is 'to organize the worlds information... the perfect search engine... the more we can 'access' and the faster we can extract their gist". Google is molding our minds steadily as we get more and more information from the internet. Carr states "people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine" about HAL's dismemberment. I believe he closed with this statement so that can ask ourselves if we have become addicted to the internet in all its glory and vast, yet skim of the surface understanding.