The Shallows Essay
The Shallows Essay
Main Points
I must say that The Shallows could be the best that I’ve read throughout the program thus far, as it kept me intrigued due to the fact that I can relate to the author, Nicholas Carr, and how the internet has had an extreme effect on the way people think, read, and become distracted. The author makes many valid points on his interpretation of how he’s been losing focus and how he notices himself wandering off a lot more during a book, as well as keeping focus on one particular thing. He notices himself jump around a lot more than before and feels that it is becoming more and more apparent to the people he discusses his issues with. The main thing i noticed that the author speaks of is although that we become more distracted and lose more of our deep thoughts as technologies change, but overall we are gaining more information since the internet is changing the way we think. It used to be before that there were libraries where you went to go study and read, but now the books online and Google have transcended to be able to find information faster, therefore seeing and learning more. Carr provides much info on different studies and experiments on how the human brain works regarding plasticity and how the human brain thinks. The author points out that before the world wide web that the art of book writing was much more powerful, and it seems from his point of view that he enjoyed the books more when people were actually writing by hand as opposed to typing books on computers now. From my perception he points out that older generations before new technological advances were prone to know more about one specific issue/item and were able to use deep reading to be empowered. Nowadays, the technology has kept our minds “distracted” and moving faster to see information more quickly as opposed to pre-internet days since the information is readily available. He does a good providing the IQ test example where he
Main Points
I must say that The Shallows could be the best that I’ve read throughout the program thus far, as it kept me intrigued due to the fact that I can relate to the author, Nicholas Carr, and how the internet has had an extreme effect on the way people think, read, and become distracted. The author makes many valid points on his interpretation of how he’s been losing focus and how he notices himself wandering off a lot more during a book, as well as keeping focus on one particular thing. He notices himself jump around a lot more than before and feels that it is becoming more and more apparent to the people he discusses his issues with. The main thing i noticed that the author speaks of is although that we become more distracted and lose more of our deep thoughts as technologies change, but overall we are gaining more information since the internet is changing the way we think. It used to be before that there were libraries where you went to go study and read, but now the books online and Google have transcended to be able to find information faster, therefore seeing and learning more. Carr provides much info on different studies and experiments on how the human brain works regarding plasticity and how the human brain thinks. The author points out that before the world wide web that the art of book writing was much more powerful, and it seems from his point of view that he enjoyed the books more when people were actually writing by hand as opposed to typing books on computers now. From my perception he points out that older generations before new technological advances were prone to know more about one specific issue/item and were able to use deep reading to be empowered. Nowadays, the technology has kept our minds “distracted” and moving faster to see information more quickly as opposed to pre-internet days since the information is readily available. He does a good providing the IQ test example where he