2. According to Carr the benefits of the internet are that you can get information within minutes and before you had to invest time in a library looking through books to acquire the information you were looking for.
3. Our example of this :
"Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print,” he wrote earlier this year. A pathologist who has long been on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School, Friedman elaborated on his comment in a telephone conversation with me. His thinking, he said, has taken on a “staccato” quality, reflecting the way he quickly scans short passages of text from many sources online. “I can’t read War and Peace anymore,” he admitted. “I’ve lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.” "
Friedman used to read large pieces of literature, but now can't read that much at one time. The internet has changed this about him.
4. He doesn't want people to lose "the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. " We turn to Google for everything nowadays and I think he just doesn't want us to lose the ability to try and figure things out or think for ourselves.
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