Michael Carr On The Internet Summary

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This article starts out by talking about how the Internet is a resource we can use for almost anything. In result, we are becoming dependent upon it in things like to increase work, reading, and writing. This article also claims that technology is a huge distraction in our lives. Media has to live up to the expectation their audiences have of everything being a "shortcut". We are becoming too use to being able to getting everything online. Carr takes issue with the constant skimming those results from using the Internet, mostly because he sees it is changing how our society thinks. Carr believes the gathering and quick reading of information will revolutionize how we intake written data. Carr believes that his recent difficulties with concentrating while reading books and long articles may be due to spending a lot of time on the Internet. …show more content…

He describes how the internet is set up to make other people money and how our thinking skills and our attention spans are undercut in the process. Carr raises the point that unlike speech, you need to be taught the ability to read in order for the brain to interpret symbols into words. He claims that the internet has actually affected how human beings process information. Carr goes as far as to say that the impact of the Internet may be far greater than any other previous technology because the Internet is gradually performing the services of most technologies. Carr also shows examples from history in which human behavior is changed due to a new invention. He shows how the invention of the clock changed the way that people lived in that they “stopped listening to their senses and started obeying the clock” (Carr). For example, before the invention of the clock, people would eat when they were hungry and wake up when the sun came

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