Does people become less intelligent than before?

Does people become less intelligent than before?

According to “Is Google Making Us Stupid? ”, Nicholas Carr mentions that Internet reprograms our minds to become too “searched ”, people are tend to find everything on the Google because it provides us the “efficiencies”. Through using the Internet for finding the results in the long term, people lose the capacity to read long piece writing or concentrations than before because the convenient web tools let us become lazy. 

As a medium, web search train our minds to learn how to catch the main ideas and skip other parts of readings. Carr shows that “People typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would “bounce” out to another site. Sometimes they’d save a long article, but there’s no evidence that they ever went back and actually read it”, and sometimes we even never think about the online research habits has already change our minds. When we focus on the Internet search for a long times, it really hard for us to pay the whole attention on a long and deep readings because we had already adopt what searching help us deal with the programs so quickly.

About the artificial intelligence, I think that even there are successful artificial brains exist; we still need to develop our minds and intelligences to become stronger. The artificial intelligence cannot replace our own. After this reading, I think people really need to leave their electronic device for some times, and open a book to read to make your mind have a forward moving.

The second article focus more about the literacy. In the article of “American the illiterate”, Chris Hedge alerts that American needs to improve their literate levels because the level of literate of the whole nation is in degradation. He mentions that there is a large population of illiterate American, and they have to face so many problems when they need to read or recognize things.

I think there is a confusion when I was reading this article, the author mentions that the political readers’ literate’s level is stay on a ten-grade level. As for me, I think the political readers have their own situations: the most things they said in the debates are aim at their votes or something they need to make it so clear or exact for all people. Actually, they do not need the high level words to support ides because people will think it not necessary, and the high level literates are also not necessary for themselves.

About the connection, I think both of the two authors concern about the degradation. Carr are mentions that “online search habits” has bad influence on people’s intelligences. Hedge talks about the large population of illiterate people to make the whole society become more illiterate.  In my opinion, I think people will become less smart if they pay the whole attention on the internet, and I also think study is just for the good life, not everyone need to have a really high illiterate level.