Carr writes, “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle. I think I know what’s going on. 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” (Carr 1). Nicholas Carr was forty-nine when he wrote “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”; it is not atypical for an middle-aged man to feel that his mental power is weakening. Aging comes with an abundance of complications, some medical and some societally-induced. A number of factors influence the decline of a human mind; to conclude that his issues with reading long-term is a result of the Internet and Google is an example of how narrow-minded and untrustworthy Carr
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