The Internets Impact on Our Brains
Pulitzer Prize finalist/author Nicholas Carr believes that the internet will be our downfall “…Causing us to lose concentration… and struggle with what’s important.” (Carr, 575) Professor Trent Batson rebuttals Carr’s idea, claiming that the internet “…is making us smarter as we re-discover new ways to learn.” (Batson, 587) Both Carr and Batson make valid claims about what they believe to be true and to take only one of their sides can be quite difficult to choose. I stand in-between both authors since they both make points that I feel can be invalid and too broad.
Nicholas Carr believes that the internet is what should be at blame for people easily losing focus and not being able to concentrate on things (such as books and articles) for longer than a few minutes at a time. Even when on the internet, people are more likely to skim pages and ‘hop’ from source to source in order to read less. Carr says that he “Once was a scuba diver in the sea of words, now [he] zips along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.” (Carr, 576) When Carr questioned blogger Scott Karp about reading books Karp responded that he “stopped reading books altogether. …show more content…
Batson feels like that ‘hopping’ technique Carr discovered was the same as we would do in a group discussion, each person says a section of information and once everyone has gone we know the topic better and faster, It’s a hybrid
Pulitzer Prize finalist/author Nicholas Carr believes that the internet will be our downfall “…Causing us to lose concentration… and struggle with what’s important.” (Carr, 575) Professor Trent Batson rebuttals Carr’s idea, claiming that the internet “…is making us smarter as we re-discover new ways to learn.” (Batson, 587) Both Carr and Batson make valid claims about what they believe to be true and to take only one of their sides can be quite difficult to choose. I stand in-between both authors since they both make points that I feel can be invalid and too broad.
Nicholas Carr believes that the internet is what should be at blame for people easily losing focus and not being able to concentrate on things (such as books and articles) for longer than a few minutes at a time. Even when on the internet, people are more likely to skim pages and ‘hop’ from source to source in order to read less. Carr says that he “Once was a scuba diver in the sea of words, now [he] zips along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.” (Carr, 576) When Carr questioned blogger Scott Karp about reading books Karp responded that he “stopped reading books altogether. …show more content…
Batson feels like that ‘hopping’ technique Carr discovered was the same as we would do in a group discussion, each person says a section of information and once everyone has gone we know the topic better and faster, It’s a hybrid