Reading Response 4

Nick Carr has many convincing claims in his argument but his first claim and thesis is what really puts the paper together and sells his idea to those who read. He states that “I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading.” Carr is talking about the way we gather technology today is very handy, but we are losing the thought process in being able to decipher specific ideas out of a large body. We now expect the answer to just appear to us in a one or two sentence summary. I do have to agree with Carr as I can even relate to this idea, as I used to be able to read books all day or have no trouble sorting out information in my head. But as I got older and started “googling” more I found that I reply on search engines to get almost all my info, and I just seek my answer then move on and am not going into serious depth that is needed.
Carr also talks about how the internet has been a blessing to him and other writers as it has all the possible information you could ever want, it’s just that all the techniques can be abused like anything. Carr claims that “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 main idea behind this, is that the heavy influence of the internet has been a great help to all especially writers due to the easy access to all the information that would be useful to their book or article. It has allowed for them to get their hands on papers or articles that would have taken days or hours to find using a library with only print sources.
The biggest problem Carr states is that Google and the internet have made research too easy, as all you have to do is throw in a few keywords and all the information will automatically be sorted the most you have to do is click on the links or click on the back button. This had meant that we have lost our touch of analyzing that was built up by reading books or having to read the whole article to get the necessary parts out. I agree with Carr as I have seen these changes personally in my life, as I have even gotten older and you would believe I would be able to see my analyzing skills get much stronger as I mature.