I threw it on the ground.

I can agree on some of the aspects Carr stated in his article. The excessively long article with supported statements shows Nick felt a little passion about the subject. It was obvious he wanted a reaction out of the reader, however his attempts were futile.

The Internet does not make people stupid.  The decisions which people choose to make is what makes them stupid. We created technology; technology can only make us stupid if we let it make us stupid. The brain is like a computer; every person is free to program it the way they chose. If we want to experience literature in depth we can read books. Usually we choose to get our information from the Internet instead of books because it’s faster and we can decode the necessary information.

The Internet can be both good and bad depending on how it is used. The Internet is usually only bad when someone is spending an obscene amount of lifetime in social networking websites or if a spouse is looking at naughty websites. The primary good of the Internet is the vast majority of information at our disposal. Instead of reading from one author we can connect to thousands of authors, giving us different opinions to strengthen us as writers. Our productivity for learning has soared.  As writers we have become great at picking out the meat and potatoes of the worldwide web to support our causes. Reading books used to be pretty exhilarating, but lets face it, we have better things to do like wining and dining out that babe from the office.

Taking in only the pertinent information is all that’s necessary for completing a task. If this is what the majority of the population is doing, then that only means we are evolving to a whole new level of intelligence. Nicholas Carr is a concerned man. His theory is elucidated in a persuasive article disguised as an informative article. It was easy understanding and relating to some of the things mentioned in his article, but he completely lost me to boredom at one point.  I actually just looked up a summation of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey instead because it seemed far more interesting. This just made me think of how much I surf the Internet while juggling my education.

Fast information is convenient, but for the most part it’s taken for granted because it’s become a part of our everyday life. For example, many people carry smart phones, which is treated as a necessity. The capability to access the web through the phone is a relatively new concept, but it is truly amazing. I feel naked without my IPhone, it’s as if I have no connection with the outside world. In conclusion the Internet is more of a convenience then a problem. For better or for worse there is no slowing down the evolution of the computer.