Breaking down Carr's writing

Within these paragraphs Carr explains the transition of traditional reading to the newer method of “power browsing”. Scott Karp, a lit major and media blogger, has mentioned that he no longer reads books and in fact can no longer focus an extended periods of reading. The ability to focus on and absorb long articles is slowly diminishing with the ease and convenience of modern day technology. Now, within a matter of minutes, somebody can browse through multiple different sources of information with only a few clicks of a button. Traditional reading is slowly becoming obsolete do to the expanding use of technology. With all of the information we need at our fingertips, skimming has become a common thing when researching. The University College London conducted an experiment that shows how users frequently bounced from site to site rarely returning to the same one twice. The most the users would typically read was one to two pages before moving on to the next site. Throughout the reading of paragraphs five through eight, Carr explains how traditional reading is slowly becoming obsolete. The conveniences of technology such as e-books and search engines such as Google have altered the way we search for and take in information. University experiments have shown that those who use online sources plow through multiple pages simply skimming and pulling highlights from each page.