Nicholas Carr mla

Nicholas Carr talks about in his article "Is Google Making Us Stupid", how he thinks that places like Google are making him think differently then before. He talks about a story of a guy name Fried Nietzsche who would type up his work on a type writer and was able to do it with his eyes closed. "One of Nietzsche's friends, a composer, noticed a change in his style of his writing. His already terse prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic" (Par. 11). Like what Carr is saying technology is changing the way people write and Nietzsche's friend was able to notice that from what his writing said. Carr also says, "[o]nce 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). His ideas are very similiar to Syvn Birkerts and that he used to be a in-depth reader but now has lost that ability and is only skimming around from book to book. Carr states in his article that he was once a good reader and now when he reads books or articles he can only make it as far as getting to the third or fourth page before loosing his attention on what he's reading. "The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle" (Par. 2). Carr feels that all the Google information access has made his mind turn into a computer, jumping from link to link, only interested in what can be read in a short time.