Internet DOES make people smarter
The internet has been around for a while and everyone knows now that the internet has many qualities and disadvantages but depending on the reason of use of the internet it can be educational also informational with quick and easy access to any topic and this can lead to making people smarter. The reason the internet makes people smarter are its easy accessibility, encyclopedia's (Wikipedia), and the offers of education and educational videos. The internet has always had its critics of is it good or bad. But really is it the internet that is making people smarter or dumber or is it the users. The people who think the internet makes people stupid are wrong because I can easily name categories of ideas of why the internet improves people's thoughts and makes people smarter. The internet is accessible to everyone and anyone. When people want to know something or be be more educated on a topic they can just go to the internet. A popular site would be Google, which is a search engine that is trying “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” (Carr, par. 24) .By making information universal it is letting people be able to access all the topics they want to learn about. People will read and become educated on topics they want to be more informed about and really dive into the information provided. It is easier and takes less time for a person to receive this information. The internet has really helped Nicholas Carr who wrote the article Is Google Making Us Stupid. “For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet. The web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after” (para. 2). Being able to finish his work faster is a big accomplishment because of the internet. Carr is now allowed to find the information faster. But with this information with a few clicks with his fingers this may lead to down sides such as, concentration. The concentration of reading and going in dep...