3. Carr’s allusion to the scuba diver is meant to illustrate how he feels like his brain is processing words now because of the Internet. A scuba diver is fully submerged and surrounded by water. The water in Carr’s metaphor is defined as “a sea of words”, so Carr is referring to how he used to fully submerge himself in many complex and in-depth readings. This drastically differs to zipping “along the surface [of the water] like a guy on a Jet Ski.” When on a Jet Ski, the rider is moving so fast that they often skim or barely touch the water. Therefore, in Carr’s “sea of water”, the reader (or Jet Ski rider) is lightly skimming the words on the page, like a Jet Ski on water. Carr’s meaning is that he feels like he is losing his ability to read
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Carr references Joseph Weizenbaum’s comment on how the way the world functions changed completely after the invention and popularization of timekeeping instruments, like clocks. Using his quote, Carr argues that when we began keeping track of time, we began relying on the time to tell us to eat, sleep, etc. as opposed to listening to our senses and bodily needs. As Carr illustrated, we started “obeying the clock.” I believe this is an invalid argument. Not everyone listens to the time to decide when to act; rather, most people actually rely on our natural, biological circadian rhythms instead. For example, there are “morning people” and “night people”. A morning person would typically wake up early and a night person would typically try to sleep in. However, both of these people’s preferences on when to wake up differ to when the clock would ideally prefer us to wake up, probably somewhere in between 6:00 and 7:00 am. Another example, everyone eats his or her meals at different time. Therefore, nobody is generally “obeying the clock”. Most people eat dinner when they are hungry, biologically that can be anywhere from 5:00 to 9:00 pm, not at 6:30pm, when the clock wants us to eat dinner. Lastly, I believe Carr was using Joseph Weizenbaum’s quote incorrectly. Weizenbaum was a computer science professor at MIT. Therefore, it seems very odd and unlikely that a computer scientist would have opinions against the use and development of computers and technology. I believe that …show more content…
Carr uses the term, “the fuzziness of contemplation”, to describe the deep thought process people used to process before the popularization of the Internet and “power browsing.” He promotes the idea with this term that, on the Internet, we look for quick information without letting our brains “think.” Without the “fuzziness of contemplation”, people do not ask themselves questions and figure questions out themselves using their brains. Instead, they rely on the Internet to give simple answers. This idea is important to Carr because he believes that when a person has a question, they should use their brains because it will lead to “an opening for insight.” I believe that curiosity and the drive to think and learn are important to Carr. Therefore, he thinks highly of the “fuzziness of contemplation” because it motivates people to learn, as opposed to being satisfied with an easy
Carr references Joseph Weizenbaum’s comment on how the way the world functions changed completely after the invention and popularization of timekeeping instruments, like clocks. Using his quote, Carr argues that when we began keeping track of time, we began relying on the time to tell us to eat, sleep, etc. as opposed to listening to our senses and bodily needs. As Carr illustrated, we started “obeying the clock.” I believe this is an invalid argument. Not everyone listens to the time to decide when to act; rather, most people actually rely on our natural, biological circadian rhythms instead. For example, there are “morning people” and “night people”. A morning person would typically wake up early and a night person would typically try to sleep in. However, both of these people’s preferences on when to wake up differ to when the clock would ideally prefer us to wake up, probably somewhere in between 6:00 and 7:00 am. Another example, everyone eats his or her meals at different time. Therefore, nobody is generally “obeying the clock”. Most people eat dinner when they are hungry, biologically that can be anywhere from 5:00 to 9:00 pm, not at 6:30pm, when the clock wants us to eat dinner. Lastly, I believe Carr was using Joseph Weizenbaum’s quote incorrectly. Weizenbaum was a computer science professor at MIT. Therefore, it seems very odd and unlikely that a computer scientist would have opinions against the use and development of computers and technology. I believe that …show more content…
Carr uses the term, “the fuzziness of contemplation”, to describe the deep thought process people used to process before the popularization of the Internet and “power browsing.” He promotes the idea with this term that, on the Internet, we look for quick information without letting our brains “think.” Without the “fuzziness of contemplation”, people do not ask themselves questions and figure questions out themselves using their brains. Instead, they rely on the Internet to give simple answers. This idea is important to Carr because he believes that when a person has a question, they should use their brains because it will lead to “an opening for insight.” I believe that curiosity and the drive to think and learn are important to Carr. Therefore, he thinks highly of the “fuzziness of contemplation” because it motivates people to learn, as opposed to being satisfied with an easy