How Far We've Come

In our new age of google and this blogging thing, our class has been one of many things to adapt and use this "progress" to our advantage. The argument that the way we aquire knowledge has fundamentally changed is very interesting, and I as a 16 year old interprets this claim differently than someone who grew up learning how to "deep read." As we began reading "Self-Reliance," I began to notice what exactly Nicholas Carr was talking about in his article. Deep reading requires a lot of concentration and I believe it is an aquired skill. That is why our older generations have began to notice this change in thinking behavior. For us kids, this change has been implanted in our brains much earlier, and therefore, I accept the fact that I prefer short, concise pieces of information. I am used to having not necessarily a shorter attention span, but one that calls for a different medium to process information as efficiently.