After almost six pages of swimming through a “sea of words,” Carr finally stumbles upon the topic mentioned in the title of his article—Google (par. 4). He picks at our brains, challenging us to get to this point in the article, testing the mental capabilities of the modern day human. Carr notes that “the Internet…[is] becoming our map, and our, clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and tv;” (par. 18) he expresses how all these inventions have been, in a way, beneficial to mankind. However, while the Internet is seen as the Holy Grail of information, “the Internet’s high church,” Google, feels their search engine is not as adequate as it could be. The companies goal of creating “an artificial intelligence is unsettling” worries Carr (par. 29). An invention such as this would make humans completely dependent upon technology. This reliance on machines would ultimately result in a desolation of much needed human qualities—educational and analytical thinking—leading to the decline of the “human.” Carr’s simplistic diction very rarely wavers. His choice of diction is that of an average person; he speaks as if speaking to a friend. Only occasionally does Carr use words that do not appear conversational. The use of these non-conversational words such as “pithy”, “ubiquity” heighten his diction, by doing so Carr automatically strengthens his syntax making him appear credible (par. 3 and
After almost six pages of swimming through a “sea of words,” Carr finally stumbles upon the topic mentioned in the title of his article—Google (par. 4). He picks at our brains, challenging us to get to this point in the article, testing the mental capabilities of the modern day human. Carr notes that “the Internet…[is] becoming our map, and our, clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and tv;” (par. 18) he expresses how all these inventions have been, in a way, beneficial to mankind. However, while the Internet is seen as the Holy Grail of information, “the Internet’s high church,” Google, feels their search engine is not as adequate as it could be. The companies goal of creating “an artificial intelligence is unsettling” worries Carr (par. 29). An invention such as this would make humans completely dependent upon technology. This reliance on machines would ultimately result in a desolation of much needed human qualities—educational and analytical thinking—leading to the decline of the “human.” Carr’s simplistic diction very rarely wavers. His choice of diction is that of an average person; he speaks as if speaking to a friend. Only occasionally does Carr use words that do not appear conversational. The use of these non-conversational words such as “pithy”, “ubiquity” heighten his diction, by doing so Carr automatically strengthens his syntax making him appear credible (par. 3 and