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Jonelvira C. Dela Cruz - STS ACTVITY 12 BSN B

The document is a student assignment from a Science, Technology, and Society course. It contains questions about an assigned reading on how Google may be impacting human cognition. The student provides well-cited responses supporting the assertion that Google has not made people stupid, but rather has enhanced access to information and opportunities for more informed perspectives. However, the student also acknowledges concerns raised in the reading about potential degradation of critical thinking skills and attention spans from excessive Internet use replacing deep reading.

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Jonelvira C. Dela Cruz - STS ACTVITY 12 BSN B

The document is a student assignment from a Science, Technology, and Society course. It contains questions about an assigned reading on how Google may be impacting human cognition. The student provides well-cited responses supporting the assertion that Google has not made people stupid, but rather has enhanced access to information and opportunities for more informed perspectives. However, the student also acknowledges concerns raised in the reading about potential degradation of critical thinking skills and attention spans from excessive Internet use replacing deep reading.

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Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University

South La Union Campus


Agoo, La Union

GECC 105 – SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY


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Name Dela Cruz, Jonelvira C. ___ Score _______________
Course & Year BSN 2-B

ACTIVITY # 12
THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITY:
WHY THE FUTURE DOES NOT NEED US

Read and reflect on the article entitled “Is Google Making us Stupid” by Nicholas
Carr (shared material in your GClass), then answer the following questions briefly but
substantially:

1. What does Carr mean when he says, “the Net is becoming a universal
medium?” (10 pts)
 Carr discusses the fact that the benefit of this ease of access to information
comes with a price. The price is us losing the concentration we once has as a
community. We could read long excerpts and not flinch at the immense reading
material. Nowadays people “Power Browse”, named for skimming long texts
and only stopping when something looks like what they wants to write in their
reports. Which is also diminishing the readers ability to understand what the
author wants us to. According to Carr, we aren’t able to understand the key
elements that the passages of the texts want to reveal.

2. What did Marshall McLuahn mean when he said that “media supplies not only
the stuff of thought but the process of thought as well?” (15 pts)
 McLuhan believed that when a new communication tool arrives, everybody
focuses on the content that comes through it. And that’s natural. When radio
was invented, people were interested in radio programs. When TV came along,
they were interested in TV shows. When you had a telephone in your house,
you were interested in the conversation you were having.
But what McLuhan believed is that the communication technology
itself shapes the way we perceive things and the way we communicate
in ways that we’re pretty much oblivious to because we’re so focused on
the information coming through the medium.
In the long run, he thought the technology’s way of shaping the way
we think ultimately had a much greater effect on us and in our lives than
did the content flowing through the medium, whether it was television
or the internet or whatever.
Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University
South La Union Campus
Agoo, La Union

GECC 105 – SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY


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3. What do you think? Is Google making us stupid? Cite at least three examples to
support your assertion. (15 pts)
 Not at all, I think google help us in many ways. Yes it’ll make us lazy but
not stupid. Google has made us smarter—both individually and collectively—
because we have ready and free access to information. Today, Google is the
new technology. The Internet contains the world's best writing, images, and
ideas; Google lets us find the relevant pieces instantly.
 Google lets us find relevant information instantly.
o My local library has no books on that specific subject—just 18 books
about the Apollo missions in general. I could hunt through those or turn
to Google, which returns 45,000 pages.
 By considering a wide range of information, we can arrive at more creative and
informed solutions.
o In politics, for example, they are likely to see ideas from left and right,
and see how news is reported in other countries.
 The Internet’s opportunities outweigh its distractions.
o But 81 percent of experts polled by the Pew Internet Research Project
say the opportunities outweigh the distractions.

4. Carr explains that he feels his mind changing. What does this mean for the
minds of those who have grown up with Google? (15 pts)
 Carr goes on to give a very well researched account of how a text on the
internet is supposed to make the browsing experience fast and profitable. He
describes how the internet is set up to make other people money and how our
critical thinking skills and attention spans are degrading in the process. He
wraps up his argument by describing what we are losing in the shift toward
using the internet as our main information source.  He talks about the new idea
of considering the mind as a computer feels bad for the loss of deep reading
and the intellectual stimulation it provides for our brains. He wraps up his
argument by describing what we are losing in the shift toward using the
internet as our main information source.

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