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Running Head: IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID?

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Is Google Making Us Stupid?

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Is Google Making Us Stupid?

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Google believes in organizing useful information available in the whole world and making it readily accessible and beneficial to human beings. The ideology behind making this goal a reality was meant to benefit humans and make information easily accessible. This has readily been achieved with high records of word searched on Google per day(Nicolas, 2008). On the other hand however, Google’s ideology has seen human become totally dependent on the information that is readily accessible on the different sites. This has in turn transformed most people into artificial beings who fully rely on the knowledge made available on Google.

According to the author of this article, Google in corporation with computers are trying to turn the human mind into a high speed machines that takes uses the minimal time to process information. The human mind cannot achieve this as machines are more effective and faster than the human mind. The human mind cannot be programmed as the case is of a machine (Nicolas, 2008). Due to this disparity in processing capacity, humans have continuously relied on machines to process information on their behalf. Thus answering the author’s question, Google makes humans stupid.

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

The concept of over dependency on Google during research process further proves the point of diminishing brain development. Reliance on the information available on Google has seen many creative minds reduced to dependent minds. If all these information were not made available, a lot of creativity would have arisen to try and make the research and information accessibility effective. Humans would have come up with an alternative of accessing information and further rely on their memory to store all the necessary data (Nicolas, 2008). Withthe presence of Google however, this is not possible the ease of accessing information has tuned humans into machine dependent people. Humans would rather use the information readily accessible on the internet than conduct their own research to prove a certain point. This in turn diminishes the brain capacity to understand and store new information.

Google’s main aim is to organize all the possible information available in the universe which is further stored there and made accessible to humans at all time. This therefore rules out the essence of storing information in ones brain as all these information on Google have no time limit of access. In turn, humans have become reluctant to use their brains as a storage tool. This is readily seen in students who fail in a test testing their understanding on a hand in research two days later. It evidently shows that the student’s barely took time to understand what the research was all about and only relied on the information made available on Google. In this case, Google is seen as an important platform to access information from but on the other side, it makes humans dependent on it which makes humans stupid.

Whenever one searches for any information on Google, there is always a captivating caption that makes it easy to tell if one has found the correct information. This is readily achieved by Google users as the main words are written in bigger fonts, color, spacing or size thus readily captivating at a first glance. This however is not the case in class text or course books which makes it difficult to understand the main points in a class text. Class reading materials are not written as the case is in Google, this therefore makes it boring to read and spot the main points (Strickland and Weber, 2015). Most students often lose concentration after reading one or two pages as the main points are not captivatingly written making it hard to concentrate while reading. This is another example of how over reliance on Google has brought about negative impacts on learning. Today most students find it boring to read books and thus rely on the overviews available on Google to understand a text’s plot. This in turn affects brain exposure as the brain is limited to lesser texts than the case would have been if a reading culture was fully implemented.

Google and other search engines are further taking advantage of human laziness and dependency and making money out of it. This is clearly seen by how the information display and graphics employed in delivering information. Google uses different coloring accompanied by attractive images that are displayed on information searched. It further promotes other business by allowing them to advertise alongside the information searched. This thus makes it essence and relevant not only for information search but also for marketing, advice and job search. All these makes Google more needed by humans for many other purposes other than information search increasing its dependency state. Google thus becomes more than a search engine, it becomes a platform where people can get all the information they need; ranging from job hunt, marketing, branding a business among a few. All these thus limits the human brain from using other means to achieve the services offered by Google and in return, they partially becomes “slaves” to Google.

The ideology of the start of Google had all positive motives behind it however with time; some unforeseen challenges have surfaces. Over reliance onGoogle over time has diminished the human brain development and critiquing power. Information made available on Google has reduced humans to dependent beings. Google serves as a second brain to most humans as it avails and stores all the necessary information for them. This therefore reduces the human mind to a dormant state where it cannot judge a concept without relying on information from Google (Luthans and Doh, 2014). The dormant state of the human brain is thus limited to making independent decision, entertaining information not presented as that made available in Google and conducting research without first getting an overview of information available in Google.

The challenging concept in this case is the fact that all the information available on Google is a research and critic ideology of other humans. This thus creates a bigger picture where humans are seen as slaves of other human’s brains. It creates an overview picture where one person or a number of people conduct a research and make it available for other people to use. This thus implies that there are some few individuals who are controlling the rest of the brains on earth dominating the thinking capacity of majority of the individuals. Thus Google has resulted to deterioration of the human thinking and brain development capacity limiting the brain’s critic ability on important concepts. Over dependency on Google therefore makes humans stupid.

Strickland J and Weber W (2015) “How the Googleplex Works” retrieved on July 31, 2015 from: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/googleplex2.htm

Luthans, F and Doh, J. (2014) “Google corporate culture in Perspective” Scholarly Paper. Verlag fur Academische.