Throughout this whole book, Carr repeats himself over and over again. He goes on and on about the same things and he obviously feels strongly about the fact that the Internet is changing out brains and it is changing our everyday habits and skills. In an earlier chapter he mentions how the more time we spend online the better we become at multitasking and that is obviously a bad thing because the more things we are doing at a time the less focused we become. He also says that because we can access so much on the internet people read books less which weakens our abilities that we get from reading books, such as, concentration.
If we know so much about the internet changing our brains and if there is scientific proof that reading a real book is better for our brains then reading offline, then why would Google and the libraries around the United States agree to digitized millions and millions of books? I think it is because people are becoming more and more lazy, it is significantly more easier for someone to find a book online and read it, then make the trip to the library, look for the book, then rent it, read it, and eventually have to return it. It is more convenient to find books online but even though that is true, i don't think that they will stop making books and only have them available online.
-Michele Lemieux
I don't think books will ever actually be extinct.
ReplyDelete-Britney V
I don't think it would be a good thing if books were essentially taken over by the internet either, and I too do not find this to be a possibility in the near future. They have been along for too long to just completely disappear.
ReplyDelete-Meagan Cox
Michele, that is a scary thought. But like Britney said, I don't think books will ever completely extinct. Think about it this way, with songs available now on iTunes, and having the iPod and mp3 players being the way many listen to music, you would think that CD's are no longer made. But they are, so I don't think books will be extinct.
ReplyDelete- Michelle Krupnik
I have to say although it is a scary thought that books might become extinct I don't think they will. I think there is some drive to digitize them for money. However it would too hard to try to computerize an encyclopedia for example. I just don't think it could be done. Maybe digitizing is out of convenience but I don't think laziness. You still end up reading is reading is reading.
ReplyDeleteKelsey Coughlin
I think its part laziness, part digital books are more cost effective, and part all Americans want the newest technologies so they'll buy whats trending.
ReplyDeleteClifford McKeon