Has technology affected our lives? In the article “Hal and me”, Nicolas Carr describes attributes to our lives that come from the evolving technology we use every day. By introducing several educated men with literature background had found themselves changed from the constant usage of the internet. The way they lived their lives have changed, now they have become depended on the technology and their minds have changed, they expected everything to function as the same way technology does, faster. There is a loss of independence in us every time we use technology, the ability to stay focus is taken away by internet. A Canadian philosopher, Herbert McLuhan believes that “the Net seems to be doing is chipping away his capacity for concentration and contemplation”. (P.349 paragraph 5). This capacities made them be less capable of reading long articles or books. …show more content…
Such as Scott Karp, a writer who used to work for a magazine and now writes a blog about online media talks about the he has stopped reading books. Another blogger who confesses this happening is Bruce Friedman, he says “I can’t read War and Peace anymore…I’ve lost the ability to do that. Even blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it”. Blogger, Philip Davis writes “I skim. I scroll. I have very little patience for long, drawn-out, nuanced arguments, even though I accuse others of painting the too simply.” Even with their literature background it is hard for them, they are accustomed to the speed of the internet the way blogging works