In the article "Is Google Making us Stupid?" Nicholas Carr talks about how the more we are online the shorter our attention span gets. Instead of reading a book deeply we are skimming through it. He states that what we read is different from how we read. Which I totally agree on. If we read through a science book deeply then we will be smart in science. But if we only skim through the book we won't know as much as if we deeply read it. We skim through things so we can get the main idea in less effort and we save more time. Technology is shaping our brains differently. See in the olden days they used the sun to get up and to go to bed. Then the clock was invented and we set our alarms to get up. We now use math and science instead of nature to do things.
I think that it is very true that the more we are online the shorter our attention span is. I use to be able to read through a book easily now I absolutely loath reading. It's not that I hate it, it's just that I can't concentrate that well. So it makes it harder for me to like reading. Reading takes time and effort.
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