"Is Google Making Us Stupid" by Nicholas Carr, the idea of this article is that the Internet is very well changing the human thought process and the ability to read full length novels/books. Carr brings up the point that he and his friends are all having problems finishing full length books, instead they can just get the fast and short information on the live web. Now he has noticed people today not only do not read books but also dont even find the time to finish a simple 4 paragraph article. "... people using the sites exhibited ' a form of skimming activity,' hopping from one source to another..." (University College London Scholars, par. 7). Carr brings up the idea that humans don't want to have to look deep into a piece of reading material with the Net available to them.
According to Nicholas Carr, "For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they've been widely described and duly applauded... As the media theorist Marshal McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now i zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski" (par. 4). Basically Carr is saying that the internet can give the answer quick, short, and to the point. Where as reading a novel you would really have to go indepth into finding the answer its just not given to you. The internet has changed his way of thinking, the Net is over powering the human mind.
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