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In this internet excerpt “Is Google Making us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, he explains how the internet is messing with the human brains. This matters to the world, because if we continue to read on these internet web pages, it would be like were a new person. As said in this excerpt by Nicholas Carr, “As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” I like this statement, because it is a very likely opinion for the future. Us humans should be more concerned for what we do in our everyday stroll, because who knows what will happen.