- It now seems that our minds are changing, and it is harder to concentrate on and loose ourselves in the same things that we did in the past (literature for example)
- The internet has become an integral part of our lives. It simplifies things that were very complex and time consuming in the past.
- Even though the internet can be helpful, our minds morph to expect that kind of information flow. Instead of swimming through the “sea of words” that we find in literature, the internet encourages us to skim the surface.
- A dependence on the internet and loss of interest in literature could possibly be more than a change in the way that we read, but rather a change in the way that we think.
- People now tend to skim passages that seem “too long” and look for the main points. Instead of reading an entire literary work, people can quickly skim multiple internet articles.
- Studies have shown that on several popular research sites that people have a tendency to skim an article quickly before bouncing to another.
- We may be reading more now than people in the past, but it is not the same kind of reading.
- The “efficiency” and “immediacy” of the internet may interfere with our ability to think deeply.
- Neurologists say that the brain is constantly changing. This is what allows our thought processes to change and the way we read to influence the way we think.
- We begin to take on the qualities of the technology that we use. For example, we begin to plan our physical behaviors around the concept of time.
- The internet is so powerful that it includes the printing press, typewriter, calculator, telephone, and television all in one.
- Our attention is defused due to the blinking ads and hyperlinks placed all around the text.
- The internet influences changes in television and newspapers as well.
- The internet simplifies the work that the mind must do and makes it more efficient.
- In Google’s view, the more information that we can access faster, “the more productive we become as thinkers.”
- Google can be compared to a form of artificial intelligence.
- The human brain is an “outdated computer”
- It is in the economic interest of many web sites to distract the reader.
- The internet allows us to follow the whims in our mind as we read, instead of listening to the thoughts of one author.
- Our own intelligence can transform into artificial intelligence.
