In the article "Get Smarter" Cascio points out that cognition has been evolving through the ages for thousands of years. In "Is Google Making Us Stupid" Carr admits that the human mind is changing as well. Although both articles admit that the brain is adapting due to technology, "Get Smarter" has a more futuristic approach to its explanation while the google article seems to somewhat disappointed, uncomfortable, and even worried about the future.
In "Get Smarter" it states that, "the increasing complexity and range of media we engage with have, over the past century, made us smarter, rather than dumber, by providing a form of cognitive calisthenics." Cascio attempts to explain the probable outcome of our future. He also notes different drugs that are currently growing in users who need help with concentrating, studying, etc. Then he mentions that augmented intelligence "allows us to make ourselves smarter." All of this information sounds very possible, which is quite intimidating.
On the other hand, Google tries to be smarter than us all. Carr says, "their easy assumption that we'd all 'be better off' if our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling." Carr ends the article by saying, "it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence."
Both articles state that our minds are evolving and that human cognition relies more on multiple stimuli due to technological advances, but their authors' opinions on the matter are far from similar.
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