“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” By Nicholas Carr.

“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” By Nicholas Carr.

I wasn’t certain as to where we were to post our responses to this article.

1. “The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer.” Undoubtedly as to the availability of information, but economically?

2. My approach would be more along the lines that the ever more competitive economy -- the competitive World Economy -- is pressuring us to read spend less time reading on any specific topic. If one were to desire to do so, one could avoid the short articles and largely or exclusively read novels and journals (on paper or on-line). [I see the interesting discussion of the development of the clock and its interaction with human behavior in the same light.]

Even the author writes: “The Internet … [is] … becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV.” Exactly, i.e., it is replacing existing technology. I believe it is competition that is driving most of us to shorter amounts of time spent reading about any given topic, not the internet per se.

3. He mentions Taylor’s “one best method” which reminds me of the almost political mantra -- and vacuity -- of the slogan “best practices.” What a load of hooey.