Google and the Internet

To summarize the article “The Internet Is No Substitute for the Dying Newspaper Industry”, the author argues that the decline on newspapers is not the Internets fault but, the fault of “a world where information is conveyed primarily through rapidly moving images rather than print.” He mentions that with the decline of newspapers, the industry has tumbled with money loss and unemployment. His major argument is that “The Internet will not save newspapers.” The newspapers “are a public trust” that keep the citizens aware about situations in the world. He complains that internet articles are not the same as newspapers article and don’t take the same amount of effort to report, that “80% of reporting is done by newspapers and the wire services.” He notices that people are relying on browsing through the internet and looking at pictures more then reading the newspapers to get information. If people continue to live this way the newspapers will shortly die.

I disagree with the thought that the internet is no substitute for the newspaper because it is. With the improvement of the internet, many people get most of their information from there. On most websites, there is a top headline with some sort of news. The newspaper industry just need to get involved with the internet and start making most of there profit from the internet. I would rather get my information from the internet, because I am always on my computer, it is a click away to find any information I want. Most of the breaking news and top headlines are on my homepage, Yahoo. In our generation, the internet has taken over and rarely anybody reads the newspaper when the same information is on the computer in a shorter version, with color images that allows you to picture what is actually happening.







To summarize the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, the author is trying to point out that with the technologies that are being produced in our world, such as Google, makes us lazy and stupid. The main argument is with high speed internet, computers are becoming “our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV.” He gets angry at search engines like Google, because he believe Google offers anything you want, you don’t have to go into deep reading to find your answer. You are able to skim through articles because they are too lengthy to read. This is how are society has become. Since we have high speed internet, there is no point on going to a library to get a book, because there is always a summary on a search engine, like Google. With the bold headlines on the internet, to some they don’t even need to open the link up they get their information from the headline.

I agree with the authors thoughts on how the internet is making us stupid. When the internet did not exist, people would have to read in length to get information that they were looking for. Now that the internet is available and search engines like Google are offered to us, there is no need to read in length, we would just need to skim through the articles and find the main points, you can even get the main put from the headline. Google offers us vast links to any subject that to get any information you just need to go to Google. As an example to this concept, in our class when we need to define a word, or to look up something what do we say, “It lives in Google.” But, even though I agree that it is making us stupid, it is part of our generation. If you compare us to older generations we would look stupid but, if your are comparing us to our own generations we are not stupid because most people get their news in a much shorter visually way on the internet.