Blog Assignment 4

The Internet has changed the way the world and mind think today. it has evolved to benefit us as well as corrupt us. the Internet alone is not the only product that is evolving; technology is as well. With these two evolutions in our daily lives, our mind is being vastly affected. The Internet is damaging our attention spans and interfering with our ability to think. I agree with this statement because in the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid" by Nicholas Carr, a lot of good points were made to prove this statement to be true. The internet, in this modern time, is distracting us humans and affecting us greatly. The internet seems to  be taking over our ability to think for ourselves. Nicholas Carr states, "I'm not thinking the way I used to think" (19). Here Carr is explaining how different his mind is ever since he began using the internet. However, not every write believed what Carr believes about the Internet "tinkering with his brain" (19). Steven Pinker would disagree with Carr's beliefs that the internet is taking over our mind and affecting the way we think. "The most interesting trend in the development of the internet is not how it is changing people's ways of thinking but by how is it adapting to the way that people think" (Pinker, 31). Basically he is stating that as we humans are evolving and changing, technology is as well in order to "keep up" with our changes. However, Pinker does believe that the internet is changing many aspects of our lives. According to Pinker, "Our physical folders, mail boxes, bookshelves, spread sheets, documents, media players, and so on have been replaced by software equivalents, which has affected our time budgets in countless ways. But to call it an alteration of 'how we think' is I think an exaggeration" (31). He does believe that the internet is changing our world around us, not our mind.