what the internet is doing to our brains
The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains
Nicholas Carr
Over the last two decades the Internet has developed into instant source of information. Libraries and museums are slowing becoming useless for research and development, because of how easy and simplistic it is to discover information with just a couple mouse clicks away. Now in modern libraries people do not just go there for books, but they are there for the wifi hotspots as well. Tapping of the keys is the most predominant sound rather then turning of the pages. Why would you read a whole book to find out a just little bit of information when you can just type into Google what you need to know about your topic? I feel as if most people aren’t as well rounded and intellectual as they were back when the Internet was not around. People even myself are so reliant on the Internet that if we could not use it we would feel helpless.
The brain no longer is processing information in the same way as it was before the Internet. Carr insist that the negative side affects of the Internet outweigh its efficiency. It is hard to say what the Internet is doing to our brain physically because we do not have sensors that show how the brain is operating. Like when the heart beats when its pumping blood, the lungs expand when we are breathing in air, or when the stomach churns when digesting food.
In chapter three Carr explains the tools of the mind. As individuals our intellectual maturation can be discovered the way we draw pictures, or maps, of our surroundings. We use maps as tools for the brains. Not only does it store and transmits information but as a medium maps embodies a particular mode of seeing and thinking. Maps give us a visual perception in our brain of what surrounds us and where it is. To man the technology of maps gave a new and more comprehending mind, more able to fathom the unseen forces that mold his surroundings and his existence.
Carr states in chapter four “ We don’t see
Nicholas Carr
Over the last two decades the Internet has developed into instant source of information. Libraries and museums are slowing becoming useless for research and development, because of how easy and simplistic it is to discover information with just a couple mouse clicks away. Now in modern libraries people do not just go there for books, but they are there for the wifi hotspots as well. Tapping of the keys is the most predominant sound rather then turning of the pages. Why would you read a whole book to find out a just little bit of information when you can just type into Google what you need to know about your topic? I feel as if most people aren’t as well rounded and intellectual as they were back when the Internet was not around. People even myself are so reliant on the Internet that if we could not use it we would feel helpless.
The brain no longer is processing information in the same way as it was before the Internet. Carr insist that the negative side affects of the Internet outweigh its efficiency. It is hard to say what the Internet is doing to our brain physically because we do not have sensors that show how the brain is operating. Like when the heart beats when its pumping blood, the lungs expand when we are breathing in air, or when the stomach churns when digesting food.
In chapter three Carr explains the tools of the mind. As individuals our intellectual maturation can be discovered the way we draw pictures, or maps, of our surroundings. We use maps as tools for the brains. Not only does it store and transmits information but as a medium maps embodies a particular mode of seeing and thinking. Maps give us a visual perception in our brain of what surrounds us and where it is. To man the technology of maps gave a new and more comprehending mind, more able to fathom the unseen forces that mold his surroundings and his existence.
Carr states in chapter four “ We don’t see
References: Carr, Nicholas (2010) What the Internet is doing to our brains. (2,3,4,5) 17-98