Summary Of Space Odyssey By Henry Carr
In his article, Carr is tried to explain how the internet has become our principal source of information, how it has affected our ability to read books and other long bits. Although this process may offer knowledge competency, in the process, but in the process, it reduces our brains learning capabilities. He takes a more hesitant tactic to how an amplified usage of the internet as a medium for reading and web-surfing has reduced our attention span. Carr uses a comparison of a jet ski and a scuba diver to describe how his reading has dramatically changed from diving deep into the words on the paper to now just skimming along the surface of papers and books. He believes that this is all caused by the Net and the way information is distributed.
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He also describes how the internet is set up to make other people money and how our critical thinking skills and attention spans are degrading in the process. He also describes what we are losing in the shift toward using the internet as our main information source. He talks about the new idea of considering the mind as a computer and feels bad for the loss of deep reading and the intellectual stimulation it provides for our brains. Carr quotes the 2001: A Space Odyssey scene he used in opening the article and that he identifies with the computer in the scene rather than the robotic human and seems to suggest that internet is going to cause us to become more machine-like than machines …show more content…
Twenty or more years ago, researching the meaning of words was almost as tedious as getting a driver’s license since it had to be looked up in a big dictionary. Today Google merely reflects what we already did in the past, but in a more convenient manner. Now, rather than rifling it out on a big book and flipping through indexes to find the keyword in order to find the pages relevant to a research, we just type in the words to generate a similar list. Instead of finding answers from only the few books we might have in our own homes, we find answers from millions of sources from all around the world. Access to the internet’s information lets us think better and fast. By considering a wide range of information, we can arrive at a more creative and informed
He also describes how the internet is set up to make other people money and how our critical thinking skills and attention spans are degrading in the process. He also describes what we are losing in the shift toward using the internet as our main information source. He talks about the new idea of considering the mind as a computer and feels bad for the loss of deep reading and the intellectual stimulation it provides for our brains. Carr quotes the 2001: A Space Odyssey scene he used in opening the article and that he identifies with the computer in the scene rather than the robotic human and seems to suggest that internet is going to cause us to become more machine-like than machines …show more content…
Twenty or more years ago, researching the meaning of words was almost as tedious as getting a driver’s license since it had to be looked up in a big dictionary. Today Google merely reflects what we already did in the past, but in a more convenient manner. Now, rather than rifling it out on a big book and flipping through indexes to find the keyword in order to find the pages relevant to a research, we just type in the words to generate a similar list. Instead of finding answers from only the few books we might have in our own homes, we find answers from millions of sources from all around the world. Access to the internet’s information lets us think better and fast. By considering a wide range of information, we can arrive at a more creative and informed