The Shallows

Make up assignment 

In the Shallows Nicholas Carr makes very strong points on how the Internet has cognitive consequences and forces us to eliminate our brains normal process of linear thinking. This is a very good point but I find myself disagreeing with Carr. I’m not sure if I disagree because I’ve read the book Everything Bad is Good For You by Steven Johnson and enjoyed it, or because my personal experience leads me to believe the opposite. Carr does point out how when we use the Internet we feel like we’re getting smarter but in reality it is an illusion. I do not believe this is the case, I think that when we use the Internet we feel like we are getting smarter because we actually are. The Internet allows us to take in multiple sources of information and use them at once. I think it heightens our ability to multitask and increases the rate in which we learn things.