Identify the author's claim/argument. Do you agree or disagree?

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Identify the author's claim/argument. Do you agree or disagree? Respond in 250 -300 words providing a brief summary of the article along with the claim statement, then your thesis/opinion regarding the author's point of view. Cited evidence in the text to support your response using paragraph numbers (para 1). Be sure to discuss cited evidence in your response.

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"Faux Friendships" reading changed to "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr. 

from The Atlantic  (Links to an external site.)

Is Google making us stupid?

para 1

"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (Links to an external site.). Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “ brain. “Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. “I can feel it. I can feel it.”


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