Well, I don't really know where to go with this article. I'm having mixed feelings about it, because on one hand, it makes sense that the internet could affect us in a manner that would change how we expect to read things. However, I've played video games since I was two, and I love to spend a lot of my time on the internet, but I can still easily find myself in that "Deep reading," state that Carr references. When I read a book, I normally get so absorbed in the book that I lose all track of time. I think it may also be true based on what we talked about today, what with people being more interested in the VMAs than the DNC. If they wanted info about the Democratic Party and Obama, they'd probably just read a quick snippet of it on the internet, rather than watch a whole showing. The internet is very helpful for gathering info, but I can see why he would be worried that it would lead to people not reaching their "Deep thinking," states.
And when I read the title, I had thought that maybe he'd say something about how using google search is what's dumbing us down, so to speak. But what he really meant were the people behind the search engine, who believe that an artificial AI that didn't have multiple ways of doing things, and only had the one, most efficient way would be best. Obviously, doing something the most efficient way is best in most cases, but sometimes the most efficient way is no longer an option, and if that was taken away from an AI who only knows how to do that one thing, it wouldn't work at all. The only way for it to work in that situation would mean that it would need to be able to think of another action, something that Google believes is less productive, according to Carr.
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