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Before when information had to be studied students might find themselves buried in the stacks carefully pouring over large and unwieldy volumes.  As technology advanced, along with the way people took in information, society has become more dependent on easy, simple, quick answers.  With constantly wandering attention and distractions beating you from all sides the idea of becoming engrossed in something seems almost laughable.  Supporting Michael Agger's idea in his essay titled Lazy Eyes; that it’s not the reader who must change, but the author, WCC student Adam D. suggests that, “If they cannot find the answers within four or five mouse clicks, they will give up and say, “I guess I’ll never know.”  Today with the advances made, we find ourselves skimming and skipping from one bit of information to the next.  Moving with his theory that the author must change to suit the changing way people concentrate Agger claims, "The environment works against you.  Read a nice sentence, get dinged by IM, never return to the story again."  With our skipping natures we sabotage any potential learning we might gain otherwise.  With this mentality it's not toward a more informed society we advance, but toward a degeneration in societal reading and development standards.