1. What is changing is how easy it is to find information online. This is making people lazy. You can search something and find exactly what you’re looking for in a matter of seconds. Also this is causing people to lose their ability to concentrate because they can read a small paragraph and have their questions answered, or summarized so quickly.
2. The convenience of it all. You can find everything so quickly.
3. “But the machine had a subtler effect on his work. One of Nietzsche’s friends, a composer, noticed a change in the style of his writing. His already terse prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic. “Perhaps you will through this instrument even take to a new idiom,” the friend wrote in a letter, noting that, in his own work, his “‘thoughts’ in music and language often depend on the quality of pen and paper.” “You are right,” Nietzsche replied, “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler , Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.”
4. That people are going to rely too much on the internet to do the thinking for them. He is also concerned about losing self-reliance.
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