"It's BECAUSE of the immense amount of data passing through our skulls that our thought processes and attention spans have grown shallow and aphoristic. If we need an answer to a question all we have to do is Google it, answer it, and forget it"(uwsp.edu). Google has made the process of learning how to do things extremely easy. It would be a catastrophic thing to think, if the internet where to someday fail, where would all that information go? How then will people survive without it? .
People send hours on their mobile device and computers texting, emailing, watching TV shows or movies, finding out the latest gossip of their favorite celebrity when an assignment is due two hours from then. The Internet is an easy access to information as well as distractions. "They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity of concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles." (Carr 333) A search engine is open, and how many tabs are open? A student researching for his English paper may have multiple pages open skimming through articles to find what he needs. Carr goes on with a more "neurological and psychological experiment" (Carr 333) on the reading and thinking of an individual. ". . . University College London, suggests that we may well be in the midst of a sea change in the way we read and think. . . They found that people using the sites exhibited "a form of skimming activity," hoping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they'd already visited. They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would "bounce" out to another site." The attention one puts to a reading, has become of solely getting what we need and leaving out the big picture.
