In chapter 9 (Search, Memory) of The Shallows, Carr talks about old writers, philosophers, and he referred to how people got used to writing about a variety of things. For example, he insisted that as Socrates was correct, people depended more on other people's thoughts than their own memories while they were learning. In the beginning, people usually just kept on memorizing until they learned what they needed to learn. According to Carr, we can easily look up knowledge via web now that we have the internet. Carr also said that "Books provided people with a far greater and more diverse supply of facts, opinions, ideas, and stories than had been available before."(Carr 177). In other words, people relied only on books, scrolls, and all types of written documents they would have had in order to do research and fine information to learn during the era Socrates was around. One thing Carr referred to was Shakespeare. For example, he said that Shakespeare referred to Hamlet as "the book and volume of my brain."(Carr 178). It sounds more like that Shakespeare used Hamlet as something that keeps memorized facts in his mind. Memorization isn't always the best way to maintain facts. Given that Erasmus was a great memorizer of classical literature from his school, The playwright Terence did not recommend memorization as a way to maintain facts or lines in a play script. Carr said that Erika Rummel insisted that there are around two ways to completely engage the mind in learning. They are creativity, and proper judgement.

One interesting fact similar to searching and memory is that according to Clive Thompson, the net is an onboard brain that takes over the role of the brain played by the not outer, but inner memory. Peter Suderman believes and even argued that it isn't very efficient to use our brains to store information while we can use memory like an index that points to places like on the web to find information, connect it all, and so on. The internet is one of the most valuable tools in our culture today because now we can search for, and obtain facts through our memory functions rather than memorize or do it the over difficult way. One thing that neurologists and psychologists have known for a very long time  is that the human brain hold more than just one kind of memory. Given that statement, I am sure that each kind of memory is meant to think, retain, and process information in a certain and different way. One experiment Hermann Ebbinghaus did to prove that there are more ways to learn than memorization, is by trying to memorize two thousand words that don't make sense. Afterwards, he studied a word and it's meaning. After he did that, he discovered that if you think about a word, or anything in depth, your brain will  be more likely to remember it more thoroughly than if it were just to memorize. I wonder if the internet helps people figure out how to think or remember properly. I know that where ever you navigate on the web, it will not only give you something to remember, but it will also provide detail about it so there would be no need to memorize.

-Drew Theran