Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google making us stupid？”and Maggie Jackson’s “ A New Dark Age” have the similar subjects but different examining methods. In the article “Is Google making us stupid?” Nicholas Carr shares his experience that reading becomes more difficult than before as he spends more time online in the past few years. He then further explains that many of his writer friends have the similar feeling, as if their minds have been changed by someone. According to Carr, “The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing.” Therefore, Carr starts to think whether the Internet does us good or harm. In “A New Dark Age”, the author Maggie Jackson also expresses her especial experiences of communicating with people through the phone rather than meeting face to face. Maggie Jackson’s opinion is that even if Internet develops at an unprecedentedly speed and brings great convenience for people to search for information, the fact is the Internet makes people more distracted. Both Nicholas and Maggie are suspicious about the benefits brought about by the Internet; however, they expand their opinions through different methods.
Both Nicholas Carr and Maggie Jackson hold the opinion that Internet makes people less concentrated. According to Nicholas Carr, Internet provides many conveniences for writers in terms of searching for information. Previously, in order to find information, the writers must spend days or weeks sitting in the library and seeking for what they need in the seas of words. Now thanks to the Internet, only minutes or seconds are needed. Once the Internet was a “Godsend” for writers because it greatly shortened the time spent on searching information, However, as Nicholas argues, after the initial excitement, writers all found that the Internet not merely bring about connivance, it changed their way of thinking. Little by little, the efficient Internet makes people lose the ability of reading gradually....