Nicholas Carr p. 1-57

Carr writes about his ideas on how the internet is effecting us-- yet he does so in a more creative way then we've seen in previous readings. He weaves funny anecdotes into his chapters and the reading seems very much engaging. He feels that the internet is changing the brain--reprograming the memory. The internet has caused a shift in the attention span of all who so normally use it. The internet has changed the way we pay attention to things; research that was previously lengthy and time consuming can be resolved with a quick Google search. I think also that the invention of the smart phone has greatly changed the way people think and interact. It's so easy to look something up on my phone that I don't even really have to think about it much. The internet doesn't just give us things to think about, it changes the way we think. I think that since I've always grown up using the internet and the computer, it is much different than with older generations. I think my brain has been wired differently from the start, while people like Carr are more able to see the shift since he went many decades without having used the internet.

I completely agree with what Carr and his peers are saying about how the internet has changed specifically how we read. The internet is so fast paced and there is so much information out there, yet we quickly click out of an article if it's too long. We skim internet articles, and we then skim readings for school. It's hard to comprehend this new information. There's an email subscription that is actually called TheSkimm.com. Every day they will email you just the basic more important things that happened in the news that day. Nothing is longer than a paragraph; it's just enough information to the the point across. This service epitomizes what Carr is talking about with skimming. Below is an image of one of an example of an email The Skimm sent out before. I'm not sure if it's necessarily a bad thing...it's kind of like Twitter. Things are being condensed so more information can be sent out and processed. Since the internet is changing our brains..the internet must change in order to conform to it.