"Get smarter" responce

Ibrahim Elsayed Rasheed      

English 102-111

January 21, 2012

SWA#2

Get Smarter. Don’t Let Technology Make You Stupid

          The authors of both articles "Is Google Making Us Stupid" and "Get Smarter" seem to have a little in common and so much disagreements. Carr and Cascio agree on the fact that this generation relies significantly  on technology in general and on the internet in particular. They both believe that the internet has become an indispensable part of almost everyone's daily life, just as Cascio states “we swim in an ocean of data”.   

In his article “Gat Smarter,” Carr asks his readers to be smart and not to let the internet make them lazy or limit their abilities. The internet users have to avoid sinking in the modern technology and have to be able to take the benefit from it and not to give technology an influential role in every decision we make. He also thinks that the internet is the reason why most of its users have difficulties memorizing things and the reason why they can’t think without asking Google.

On the other hand, through his article “Get Smarter” Cascio sees the future completely depended on the technology in its different means and everyone who does not think so will be “falling behind.” We already have a high unemployment rate, so if more industries will be extinct due to the developing technology, just like the travel-agent industry,  this technology won’t be much helpful to a society that has a large percentage of its members sitting at home watching modern technologies taking job opportunities away from them.  We should not be so rely on technology to such a degree that we can't decide what to eat or even "what to study" without asking Google. Yes, we need to make Google and other technologies "the beginning of a solution" not a stupidity maker.