If we don't know something, what do we do?-We Google it! Google is like this all-knowing and universal god whose got all of our answers. I Google something almost everyday I'd say, and I think it's such a great tool. I like the fact that people have taken so much interest in doing research on the web, but I agree with Carr and his annoyance with what Google has done to our brain wiring. The author brings up some good points. He mentioned that throughout history men have been concerned that "easy availability" to written information will make people unmotivated to exercise their memory. So this problem with humanity has been going on since Socrates roamed the earth!
'"The more pieces of information we can “access” and the faster we can extract their gist, the more productive we become as thinkers."'
I think that once we extract and take what we need from an article or website, we move on quickly, and drop it like a hot potato. The Google mindset does make it harder to sit down and read a book because we are just used to moving on in a matter of minutes. Society would rather skim 10 articles in the time it takes to completely read 2 or 3 articles. We wanna learn the most in the least amount of time, but what happens is we end up learning a bunch of vague and unfocused information.
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