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Select one of the three quotes from Carr that interests you the most. What kind of ideas and thoughts do you have in response to this prompt? The shallows
“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 very least, it’s the most powerful that has come along since the book” (Carr,118).
“Karp, Friedman, and Davis—all well-educated men with a keenness for writing— seem fairly sanguine about the decay of their faculties for reading and concentrating. All things considered, they say, the benefits they get from using the Net—quick access to loads of information, potent searching and filtering tools, an easy way to share their opinions with a small but interested audience—make up for the loss of their ability to sit still and turn the pages of a book or magazine” (Carr, 8).
“The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation. The toll can be particularly high with our intellectual technologies. The tools of the mind amplify and in turn numb the most intimate, the most human, of our natural capacities—those for reason, perception, memory, emotion” (Carr, 211).
Answer:
“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 very least, it’s the most powerful that has come along since the book” (Carr,118).
Explanation:
The quote selected above allows me to create ideas and arguments about the power of the internet in our society and how it has contributed, often in a negative way, to decisions in the way we interpret situations around us. With the internet, access to information has become faster, but the creation of false, conspiratorial and untruthful information has become very powerful, often overcoming the human capacity to reason critically and efficiently, making the internet the most powerful platform we know.
