Quotation Sandwiches

In his article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid," Carr complains, "Someone or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory." Basically, Carr believes that deep thinking and deep reading have become a struggle to many of us since the Net surfing and Web browsing indirectly promote a different habit in people. we depend on the technology so much in this modern century. As we surf on the net for something, we often find ourselves end up at a sit we never intended to be at the first place. That's because Google assumes or suggests what we meant to say; as a result, we allow it to lead us to its suggestions. It's like going grocery shopping. We always buy more than we have planned to because of the variety choices and offers.

As in Carr's view, "Net seems to be doing is chipping away [our] capacity for concentration and contemplation." Internet contains enormously valuable information which are supposed to increase productivities if we utilize it well. When we start to make decision with the tools we got instead of the senses we have, we will run into a totally different problem. For example, over the weekend, there was hours long traffic jam on the freeway simply because most drivers were using the "smart GPS" for road guidance to get to the Tulip Festival. With almost all the tourists on the same route guided by the GPS to the tulip fields, the price we have to pay was spending more time in the traffic.