The brain is the fastest developing part of the human body. As we grow from our infant selves to adulthood, we collect and analyze information through observing the world around us. Nowadays, people gather information through the Internet. Due to this relationship present between society and the Internet, the human brain is trained to utilize it at any given moment. Nicholas Carr introduces this idea in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and he believes that the brain is a machine that has come to form a negative relationship because of the web. Even though people are unable to fully make use of their minds, there are people out there that enjoy the mere presence of the search bar on the Internet at their fingertips. The constant want of the Internet is expressed by Kevin Kelley in his paper “Technophilia” where he believes that it is an extension of the body that makes up who we are as people. The world at large emphasizes the use of the web, and I do agree that we cannot go about our days without, but the negatives outweigh the benefits that it has on who we are. Even though the Internet has allowed humanity to be more interconnected and is an extension of who we are, the constant want over need has resulted in negative impacts on the human brain that includes the inability to focus and a lack of wisdom.

The Internet provides unlimited information that has resulted in negative impacts on many people today that includes a lack of energy, critical thinking, and how we communicate. Carr defines the Internet as “a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information, and its legions of programmers are intent on finding the ‘one best method’ – the perfect algorithm – to carry out every mental movement of what we’ve come to describe as ‘knowledge work.’” (6). Through the Internet’s direct influence on society, Carr explains that people that use the web are experimented on every day and each time they go from link to link, they lose their ability to focus. The Internet grants us unlimited information, but even it can become too big within itself. Kelley, an Internet fanatic, states that “Despite the purposeful design of its human creators, the web is a wilderness. Its boundaries are unknown, unknowable, its mysteries uncountable. The bramble of intertwined ideas, links, documents, and images create an otherness as thick as a jungle” (5). As we continue to get lost further down the path of no return in what the Internet means to us, we start to our ability to fully function. When the Internet continues to experiment on our daily tasks, we fall for their traps and as a result, we lose energy that could have been applied to work or other activities. Even though the Internet continues to change each and every day, even its creators do not know how much information is out there.