The following essay will discuss how the ideas contained in "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr, is expressed in the futuristic novel Feed, by MT Anderson. The first of the many ideas conveyed in Carr's article is that the brain is as malleable as plastic. To explain this, Professor of Neuroscience, James Olds, states that “nerve cells habitually interrupt old connections and form new ones” (Carr 4). This means that the human brain changes its functioning based on the information manipulated by neurons. In the novel Feed, the malleability of the brain is involved in the climax of the story. The feed works like a computer chip inserted directly into a person's brain. The climax of the story occurs when Titus and his group of friends manage to hack their brain chips. Before the attack, Violet, one of the main characters, never questions the society she lives in. However, after his brain chip was hit, his thoughts and brain functions were rewired and from that moment he begins to reflect on society. Given the climax of the story, the novel illustrates how even a brain chip cannot stop the natural malleability property of the human brain. Furthermore, Carr's article states that by using technology of any kind, users tend to embody the characteristics stimulated by that technology. According to him, since the Internet processes information almost immediately, users will tend to value immediacy. To explain this, Carr gives the example of a friend of his named Scott Karp who was a literature major in college and who was an avid reader of books. However, with the advent of the Internet, Karp browsed articles online because he couldn't read as much as he used to. He is unable to pay attention and absorb long texts since reading articles online. Internet......middle paper......feed, a virtual shopping assistant suggests stores and items related to the user's previous purchases. Just like Google, assistants try to give shoppers what they want. Pop-up ads are also quite common. For example, when Titus is sad in part of a novel, a pop-up ad suggesting antidepressant medication appears on his feed, without him wanting to purchase any medication. This bombardment of consumer-facing advertisements is similar to Google's bombardment of information trying to find the best results for you. In summary, both the article and the novel criticize the public's dependence on technology. This topic is relevant today because Feed because it could be how scary the future society may appear. Works Cited Anderson, MT Feed. Candlewick Press, 2002.Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” the Atlantic (2008).