group 3

Both of these articles that we were assigned to read for English have many similarities as well as differences. The two articles we were assigned to read where is Google Making Us Stupid? And What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains. As you could imagine both of these articles relate to technology and how it is changing not only us but the world in general. Throughout this easy I will compare and contrast these two articles to inform you of each of their view points and tell you why these papers are alike and why they are not alike.
In the article What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains the author is trying to help us understand that technology isn’t all bad and that technology has allowed the writer the ability to grasp the readers’ attention more easily. For example he states that even a piece of printing paper with black ink on it is more appealing to the eye then a hand written essay on lined paper. He also goes on to explain to us all of our options we have to make our papers more appealing suck as gloss paper colored paper, font colors and sized, and italicized words. The author states that all of these options that we have can be used to emphasis meanings and compel the reader to keep reading better then a piece of lined paper and a pencil could ever do. In the article is Google Making Us Stupid? The author Nicholas Carr states that we are becoming incapable of reading long stories because we are so used to surfing the web and power skimming to pick up only the key points. However Carr says that this isn’t exactly bad because although we do not read whole books we are actually doing more reading then we used to in the 70’s and 80’s.
Both these papers are the same in regards that both of them deal with technology and how it is changing the way we write and read. However these two articles do not have the same view on things. Nicholas’ article looks more towards the fact that we as people in this time and age power skim and only pick up on the main picture of things and do not get all the details, while in the article What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains the author focuses more on what we can do with technology these days to make something more appealing to the reader. In my own opinion though these two articles counter act each other because I believe the reason for our power skimming online is due to the fact that so many things look so appealing to read that are actually just a big waste of time and we have to power skim or we won’t get time to read the things that are actually filled with information that we find interesting.