Quotation Sandwhich

According to Nicholas Carr, “we are how we read.” He is saying that the way we nowadays interpret and take information from the net is a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking. Carr worries that the style of reading from the net is weakening our capacity for our deep reading skills, being a distraction and that it affects our attention.  Our ability to read long articles is no more there because internet has made our reading skills more efficient. When we go online searching for information we need, we go straight to what we are looking for. Power browsing and skipping from link to link only distracting us from the rest of the information that is there. But we have to see it from many point of views, and you will figure that the internet is not all that bad; it only depends on how you see it. The way you use this instrument, like Carr would say, how much you use it, and the way you control it only depends on you.

In his article, The Business of Understanding. Richard Wurman says, “It also wasn’t popular to understand that nature of failure. It was popular to try to replicate success.” The author through this passage explains how it was not good to try to understand or ask questions about something you did not know of. Instead, it was better to show that you knew everything even though you didn’t, trying to understand was not popular, and you were better treated when you did not show ignorance. To grow in knowledge we all have to ask, admitting ignorance can be difficult sometimes, but it’s the only way to learn. Like Wurman would say, “when you admit ignorance, the more you will increase your ability to understand and learn.”