The Shallows What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brain By Nicholas Carr Summary

Nicholas Carr, in “The Shallows What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” (2011), argues specifically that technology and the Net is complex and will continue to grow and change our brains. He explains how everyday situations such as a child drawing a simple map on paper, is becoming more complex and often grows into a map with countries, states, cities, and even the capitals marked in properly. Carr concludes that in order for us to get older human brains have to grow. The writer convinces his audience that With the exception of alphabets and number systems, the net may well be the single most powerful mind-altering technology that has ever come into general use. At the least, it’s the most powerful device that has come along since the book. We get so used to everyday life, that if something is changed or taken away we can not get used to it. One machine that is always changed or getting better, is clocks. A world without clocks is difficult to imagine because they are always in our daily lives. “so imagine if written language, an even more primitive technology, hadn’t come into use ten

We need the simple tools like the alphabet to be successful in life. Students are learning different by reading books off the the Net than a paperback book. In today's society people have stopped using paperback books as much, and have instead resulted to buying a e-reader or other devices that you can download books on. “the Internet has even worked its way into books themselves, in the form of e-readers. Some fear that this last refuge of immersive, linear thinking is also disappearing as e-books steadily gain in popularity, bringing immediate availability, distracting links, and possibly lower incentive for quality.”(The Shallows) A survey from pewresearch.org shows that 27% of Americans read an e-book in the past 12 months up from 17% in