Nicholas Carr is arguing in his blog that technology has taken away from his original form of reading books and articles...he titles his blog "Is Google Making us Stupid?" . In my opinion google may have made some stupid because so many older generations have become dependent on sites such as google. What about those who are born into the "google" era. The only form of reading known to them is e-books and such. Traditional reading has never been a role in my younger sister's life who was born into the "google" era. If I asked her to read a book she would laugh and say "ok I'm pretty sure it is on sparknotes." In this case it is safe to say that digital reading has corrupted the minds of the most recent generations...our supposed "future". Looking into the effects of someone who has not really experienced traditional reading it is quite impossible to measure the level of stupidity gained or lost.
"Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “ brain. “Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. “I can feel it. I can feel it.”
I personally feel that people have developed this new way of scanning a text because the shortage in time. The creators of the web knows that no one in the world has the time to sit down and read an actual book so the smart, bright, and wonderful web creators brought along the fast scaning process of different sources, links, and brief online summaries. Carr calls this process skimming activity. Honestly I just used this same process to read this extremely long and not so interesting blog, but the point was received.
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I was not born in the google era,and I did not have the internet in highschool. So I cannot relate to your sister, but I am in the learning process. I usually skim long articles as well and that's something we both have in common. Depending on google/internet for your information is not always good because you will not know how the older generation does research.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could skim more efficiently! At the same time, I don't ever want to get to a point (the way Carr has) where I can't concentrate on longer reading.
ReplyDeleteI had the internet in high school and I can honestly say that without it I would have not been able to have made the grades I did. Not necessarily because you can find so much information on line but it gives suggested ways of interpreting, thinking, and analyzing topics at hand. I never had a direct answer to essay questions for example but there were examples of what the answers would look like.
ReplyDeleteI think there is a generation gap going on with those thinking you can't concentrate reading online compared to reading a book!
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