From The Shallows, chapter “Eight: The Church of Google,” create “quotation sandwich”: locate a pertinent quote, build a “frame” around it, and “blend” the author’s words with your own. While being fair and accurate, use the quote, but bend it to your purpose; use it for your “I say”—yes / no / okay, but.
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Gabrielle Tallman
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ENG 1003
24 September 2015
As the author, Carr, writes about how the internet affects our brains, in chapter eight he talk's specifically about Google. He previews the history and creators of it, making note of how insanely fast the World Wide Web empire has grown. Although, to gain money, Google had to incorporate ads. This brings Nicholas Carr all the way back to the main idea of the book and how distracting technology can be. Finally, on page 174, he writes, "With its enormous ambition, its immense bankroll, and its imperialistic designs on the world of knowledge, Google is a natural vessel for our fears as well as our hopes." Google is so powerful that some compare it to God or Satan, giving reason for the title of this chapter, "The Church of Google." However, I wouldn't take it so far as to say that it was God or Satan. Google is powerful and addictive and we, as humans, have made it that way but it is a very minor thing compared to the whole universe, no matter what you believe.
Peter Cote
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English 1003
24 Sept. 2015
Chapter 8 The Shallows Quotation Sandwich
Nicholas Carr is a writer who has written in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Wired. He has published his books The Big Switch and Does IT Matter? over the years. Nicholas Carr argues that the internet distracts the user saying that “Every click we make on the Web marks a break in our concentration.” (157). Carr shows that, every time a person goes online they press on something, it distracts them from their main objective. Although I agree that clicking can be a distraction, I also argue that notifications for everything else can be turned off and the “click” that is being made can be for something involved in the research. If someone is an experienced researcher, then I believe they can press on different sources without their concentration breaking. Then again if the person presses on a link unrelated to the data they are looking at, then it is pulling them away from their concentration.
Devante Wrenn
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English 1003
24 September 2015
Chapter eight
Carr is a well educated author who sees things different from what most people do. He talks about the Net again but mainly Google. Carr says “Google is quite literally, in the business of distraction” which he is talking about how Google has all these ads that pop up. Yeah I do agree that it may distract you but you can also ignore it or have it blocked. Certain ads get people’s attention and they just want to click away but to not do that you have to do two of the things I said. This could be prevented just by the click of a button.
Logan Radwanski
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English 1003
24 September 2015
Nicholas Carr has been expressing in his essays the influence of technology on our minds and how the way they function. With our minds being like machines and the circuiting of them has been influenced by our daily use of the Internet. ““In Google’s view, information is a kind of commodity, a utilitarian resource we can, and should, be mined and processed with industrial efficiency.” (Carr 152) In chapter eight Carr talks about the Industrial Revolution’s influence on the way of production and how were businesses were run. By focusing on something for a short period of time and is better than a “deep reading” of it as doing it that way the process takes longer. Thanks to the Internet’s quick and “industrial efficiency” our brains have been rewired to process information more quickly. With Google’s quick and easy way to obtaining information has trained our minds like the industrial workers to be more efficient with the way we take in information and what we do with it. I agree with Carr, as search engines such as Google & Bing become a second nature use to me to find information. I find information very quickly and able to complete my tasks faster or discover something and store it in my mind faster than looking in a book.
Hunter Hebert
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English 1003
24 September 2015
The Shallows Chapter 8 Summary
In Chapter 8 The Shallows, Carr continues to discuss how the advancements of technology, specifically the internet, have affected our brain. Carr argues that the internet, filled with ads, pictures and pop-ups, provides constant distraction in which our brains, so addicted to the curiosity of them all, struggle to resist. He makes the comment that “every click we make on the Web marks a break in our concentration.” (157). In agreement with Carr, I feel that as we continue to rely so much on the convenience of the internet, we are slowly abandoning our abilities and our minds desire to deeply read and analyze the research we see on the internet. Our minds have become “bored” by this and now crave fast-paced and colorful links. While it is a choice whether or not we click our mouse on the ads, we have become so adapted to falling into the temptation without even realizing it that it has become very difficult to resist clicking.
Anna Newton
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English 1003
24 September 2015
The Shallows: Chapter 8 Sandwich Quotation
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, is a writer informed on technology and culture. In Chapter 8, he explains the importance of Frederick Taylor, and how he created an algorithm. While Taylor is benefiting society by creating instructions to solve a problem, Carr states, “What Taylor did for the work of hand, Google is doing for the work of the mind.” (150). I agree that Google has been such a lifesaver for most people, today. Even though there are a lot of complications behind the scenes, all we have to do is type in our search terms.
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English 1003
24 September 2015
Internet Indulgence
In today's society, we have so many devices that allow us to have the internet with us at all times, right at our fingertips. Anything we want to know is just a few clicks away, unlike how things used to be. In not so recent history, to get information people had no other choice than to go to the library and find multiple sources that included what they needed to conduct their research. We are greatly convenienced now, seeing that we no longer have to do such things. We have a powerful and leading search engine, Google. Instead of searching ourselves for the information we need, we type it into a website, and have thousands of sources suddenly available, waiting for us to explore them. Nicholas Carr feels similarly on this topic. He describes in Chapter eight of his work, "The Shallows", that "The problem today is that we're losing our ability to strike a balance between those two very different states of mind" (168), in reference to being able to use Google effectively, and being able to read a novel, or written source effectively. We have become so accustomed to "Googling" our questions and using excessive amounts of the internet that we are losing our ability to concentrate when we are without it. Our minds get very easily distracted when we begin reading even a simple blog post. We send a text, click a link, search up pictures of the Kardashians, things that are not truly benefitting our intellectual growth.
Trevor Porter
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English 1003
September 26, 2015
Chapter Eight Quotation Sandwich
Google, no doubt, is one of the most helpful and innovational online devices since e-mail. Without it, research that would have usually takes us a couple hours would have used up a few weeks of valuable time. Carr quotes a phrase from one of google's employees statementas, "Our goal," says Irene Au, "is to get users in and out really quickly. All our design decisions are based on that stategy."[156] This is presice evidence of what Carr is dissapointed about what technology is doing to America. Google, itself, is disscouraging deep-reading, it is dumbing down the amout of time and effort requiring to do things. This worries Carr, and believe the same way. If we don't slow down what we are doing, the corporate big-heads will do whatever it takes to turn a profit. Including downgrading the intelligence of the world.
Aidan Bish
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SWU English 1003
24 September 2015
Carr on Google and the Risks of its Mission.
Carr is a prominent writer and researcher whose work has led him to a concern about what technology is doing to the way our brains work. His book “the Shallows” explores history of technology and culture and the science of memory and our brains to illustrate this point. In Chapter 8 “The Church of Google”, he discusses Google’s goal of efficiency and searchability, as well as its enormous influence on the fast-paced searching of the web. He does not condemn it completely, but says “there needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden. We need to work in Google’s ‘world of numbers’, but we also need to be able to retreat to Sleepy Hollow. The problem today is that we’re losing our ability to strike a balance between those two very different states of mind.” Basically, Carr argues that the path of Internet technology is leading us away from a balance that also includes deep intellectual thought. I entirely agree with this concept. Contemplation is an important part of forming one’s own opinion, solving problems, and of memory overall. Despite the fact that I don’t oppose the Internet the way that Carr does, I recognize the importance of “unplugging”.
Carter Groomes
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English 1003
23 September 2015
Quotation Sandwich
In Chapter 8 of Nicolas Carr’s The Shallows, he backs up his beliefs from earlier chapters once again. Carr does not like the idea of advancing technology and making everything more accessible. In fact, he states “To make a book more discoverable and searchable online is also to dismember it” (Carr). I do not agree with Carr’s statement here because whether a book is online, on a tablet, or in a book, the words are still the same but just on a different landscape. The only way that putting a book into technology is if the reader cannot handle the temptation of going to other websites while reading. In conclusion, Carr strongly believes that easily accessible books and resources are ruining our generation.
Kaylee Young
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English 1003
24 September 2015
Chapter 8- Quotation Sandwich
In chapter eight, “The Church of Google,” Carr opens up by discussing the development of Taylorism, a system of measurement and organization, that initially gets adopted by google. He introduces Taylor’s system to ensure his act of useful restructuring that allows speedy efficiency. According to Carr, “the Googleplex—is the Internet’s high church, and the religion practiced inside its walls is Taylorism.” Carr metaphorically creates a description of the google system. His metaphor is very helpful to me, by giving me a clearer understanding of how exactly google is laid out, or based upon.