Although Plato and Carr lived in drastically different time periods, they have very similar thoughts on the traditional ways information should travel. Both of them are attached to their respective conventional ways of communicating. At the same time, however, they express a certain level of openness to the changes, Carr even claiming that the internet had been a “godsend to [him] as a writer” (2). Plato felt negatively about writing in general, yet explained that “the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of [its] utility” (1), admitting that he may just simply not understand how useful writing may prove itself to be in later generations. Overall, Carr and Plato felt very negatively about the changes they were witnessing,
