What Dillon shows us is that reading in smaller bursts are slowly hurting our ability to comprehend information and texts. Dillon shows us that there is a huge difference between reading online and reading a physical copy. He finds it funny that we have not noticed this sooner, we rely so much on digital information, but we have not paid attention to how much it has effected us (Sullivan par 6). One of the earliest articles I found that discusses the decline of reading is The Death of Reading by Mitchell Stephens written in 1991. Stephens is a journalism professor at the New York University. He paints a picture for us of day to day activities that have been altered by electronics.
“Three people sit in a doctor 's waiting room. One stares …show more content…
Carr is not saying that the internet is bad; he even says, “The internet is a godsend to me as a writer” (Carr par 3) The internet has allowed us to do mass amounts of research and expand our knowledge at a rapid rate. However, over time it becomes more clear that everything we once did; searching through articles and books in a library for days collecting information can now be done in a matter of hours in the comfort of our own homes. The internet has become extremely beneficial to today’s society, but does this advancement also harm us? Clive Thompson has said, “The perfect recall of silicon memory…can be an enormous boon to thinking.” This is showing the positive things that come with the internet, opening new thoughts and ideas to us the fastest way possible. In the 1960s Marshall McLuhan said, “Media is not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought”(Carr par 4). The thing that has become so beneficial to society has changed and altered our thought process and our ability to concentrate on one task for longer than an hour. Our minds have been trained to retain information in a swift, fluid like manner. The longer we use the web the more we alter our minds.
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We often don’t even contemplate our own views and thoughts on what we read, we tend to look up what others say about we read before we take a second to reflect on what we just read (Carr par 8). In 1882 Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter of sorts because his eyes could no longer focus on a page, he then learned how to “touch-type”. Nietzsche, being already a straightforward, terse writer, “became even tighter, more telegraphic.” Friedrich A Kittler said that Nietzsche’s phrase, “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.” This illustration from the past shows how easily technology and advancements have changed how we think, read and write over time (Carr par
“Three people sit in a doctor 's waiting room. One stares …show more content…
Carr is not saying that the internet is bad; he even says, “The internet is a godsend to me as a writer” (Carr par 3) The internet has allowed us to do mass amounts of research and expand our knowledge at a rapid rate. However, over time it becomes more clear that everything we once did; searching through articles and books in a library for days collecting information can now be done in a matter of hours in the comfort of our own homes. The internet has become extremely beneficial to today’s society, but does this advancement also harm us? Clive Thompson has said, “The perfect recall of silicon memory…can be an enormous boon to thinking.” This is showing the positive things that come with the internet, opening new thoughts and ideas to us the fastest way possible. In the 1960s Marshall McLuhan said, “Media is not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought”(Carr par 4). The thing that has become so beneficial to society has changed and altered our thought process and our ability to concentrate on one task for longer than an hour. Our minds have been trained to retain information in a swift, fluid like manner. The longer we use the web the more we alter our minds.
Carr shows us an experiment that the University …show more content…
We often don’t even contemplate our own views and thoughts on what we read, we tend to look up what others say about we read before we take a second to reflect on what we just read (Carr par 8). In 1882 Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter of sorts because his eyes could no longer focus on a page, he then learned how to “touch-type”. Nietzsche, being already a straightforward, terse writer, “became even tighter, more telegraphic.” Friedrich A Kittler said that Nietzsche’s phrase, “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.” This illustration from the past shows how easily technology and advancements have changed how we think, read and write over time (Carr par