Just as the arrival of Gutenberg's printing press helped to make reading universal, in the process ushering in enormous social revolutions, Carr says the Internet is producing a revolution of its own that is once again changing how we structure everything. 'The way we gather information is by jumping around,' he says, 'and that's governed not only by Google but by the whole economic structure of the Internet.' But he says that Google is very much the dominant player, and it both governs and symbolizes the way information is structured.

It's not just Google Carr is talking about, but rather the structure and nature of the whole Internet. 'It makes it harder even when we're offline to read books, as skimming takes over and displaces our modes of reading,' he says. He says that the Internet is actually beginning to change the way we think. In fact, if Carr is correct, you may never even make it to the end of this article.Ĭarr says it's not just about people scanning and jumping around very quickly. In fact, Carr argues, when we give in to the natural impulses to click and skim, rather than to read and think, the Internet may actually doing us a disservice: It shortens our attention spans and even inhibits our ability to read longer books and articles. You probably shouldn't be feeling so good about it, says writer Nicholas Carr, who has just written an article for The Atlantic Monthly with the provocative title, 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?' Carr says that while the Internet allows us to get lots of information very quickly, it also encourages us not to look at it very thoughtfully. It's a feeling of power, isn't it? All that information, all that content, right there for you whenever you want it?

Right now, you're probably happy that you have the vast resources of the entire Internet at your fingertips.

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