"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Reading Responce #2

In the article “Is Google Making us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr describes how technology is shifting the way we read and critically think about what we read. A new culture has been born. We are loosing our capability to analyze and take in the factual information that we commonly get from books and other sources of information other than computers. The inspiration of the computer started off many years ago when Frederick Winslow Taylor carried a stopwatch into the Midvale Steel plant in Philadelphia and began a historic series of experiments aimed at improving the efficiency of the plant’s mechanists. By doing this, Taylor created a set of precise instructions, what we would call today an algorithm. Although the employees complained about the new management insisting that it turned them a little into robotic like humans, the productivity elevated strongly. Years later, Taylor’s “system” was embraced by manufacturers throughout the country. Taylor emphasized that “In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first”. I admire this quote because in a way, that quote is very true today. Technology is taking over a lot of the jobs man would do by hand in the past. Machines take hard work for mankind and do them twice as fast. The goal as Taylor defined, was to identify and adopt for every job, the “one best method” of work and there by to effect “the gradual substitution of science for rule of thumb throughout the mechanic arts” This declaration states that Taylor was simply looking for ways to build better approaches for the people. I don’t believe he would mean to create anything that would change the mental state. You would assume that this would irritate the man who have been doing stuff by hand to have some simple technology do it for them. Taylor introduced the most basic type of technology without having the slightest clue that he would turn the future into what people would never expect at the time. With a simple series of experiments, new ideas began to form during the course of quiet a number years. Thanks to him and his wisdom, we now have the internet. A technology so advanced it is almost impossible to avoid it. In a sense I agree with Carr’s opinion on the internet. I believe the internet is part reason to blame for the slack of work. In my opinion, anything written on paper has taken a lot more thought and process than to simply type up useless words. Google is just a simple filter that will pull up tons of useless spam. I support the fact that Google is a fast way to get to whatever it is your researching, however a lot of the stuff you find online is junk. Books will always be accurate publishes information that will not state lies. In conclusion, the internet has become a great thing to have, but it has also done a lot of damage.