Erin's post on "Is Google Making Us Stupid"

Nichols Carr's article "Is Google Making Us Stupid" has many controversial statements and concerns. Stating many opinions about how google and the Internet has made us less of "deep readers," and more power browsers. Moving quickly from text to text in almost a computer like manner. Stating how "the net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation." In this article he makes many interesting points. One of which he states how a young man named Frederick Winslow Taylor carried a stopwatch into a Midvale steel plant in Philadelphia, and began experiments on improving efficiency with the plants machinists. By breaking down jobs into small steps, he discovered the factory's productivity improved greatly. Resulting in a method that is still used today in many factories across the world. Carr states "What Taylor did for the work of the hand, Google is doing for the work of the mind." All in all Carr's article is very interesting, and can really make a person think on either side of this subject.