Internet Education In The Shallows By Nicholas Carr

It has become easier to access information right when you need it; The internet has influenced new creations that help with daily life and getting tasks done faster and more efficient. Education has become easy and more complex regarding getting new information, as extensive knowledge is available at any moment. The internet is the most powerful thing since books or even numbers; this can be seen in The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. The internet has made gaining online material more accessible with fast and instant possibilities. “With a few clicks, people can search virtual catalogs, place orders, track shipments, and update information in corporate databases.” (Carr 85). With technology advancing and where it is right now it is so easy to order things that are needed the next day and have them at your doorstep. You can easily change any information in an instant as well. “The net has become essential to their work, school or social lives, and often all three.”(Carr 9). Without the internet education would not be near as advanced as it is now, jobs would be made more difficult, with having to rely on written thoughts and

“That's why the future of knowledge and culture no longer lies in books or newspapers or TV shows or radio programs or records or CDs.” (Carr 89). Technology has created ways to read books, newspapers, and listen to music in one simple place: The Internet. “The map maker began to use sophisticated tools like the direction-finding compass and the angle-measuring theodolite and to rely on mathematical reckonings and formulas.” (Carr 40). With more information about new technologies, the map maker could make something much more than a map on paper. Something that can be easily accessed on the internet, with regard to finding directions. The fact that the internet can give us easy access to everything we need in one place just proves the power of the