Exploring Key Terms

1. Neural circuitry: Is like a web or system of neurons inside human brains.

Meaning in the passage: After a long time of using the techonology and Internet, the brain strating to adapt and fix the original structure of the brain (Carr feels like it).

2. Staccato quality: Staccato is a "note" in Music that skip through or move through some other notes.

Meaning in Passage: After a long period of time, he strated to lose the ability to concentrate and started to skim read more than read fullly. He even give an example that he can't even reads "Peace and War".

3. Power browse: Is almost like a new concept or genre of reading in which people just skim and scan through everything they see, from the title, to the context and picture.

Meaning in Passage: This phrase in the passage meaing just like the meaning I stated. It is like people are trying to go online to read in a "power browse"way, it's like people are strating to move away from the traditional deep read from the old time.

4. “Efficiency” and “immediacy”: Through Dictionary, "Efficiency" is the effect, the after results and the "Immediacy" is right away, instantly.

Meaning in passage: These two phrase purpose that the way people read have change.people are not aiming to understand the reading inside and out anymore. When people read, they just want to know the overall story, meaning of that article or piece of writing to make time quick and effective.

5. Nietzsche: Friedrich Nietzsche started as a philologist, his writing is very deep and thoughtful, more than the usual writing.

Meaning in passage: In the passage stated that he was saved by a type-writer. He was having headache and all sort of pain and difficulties when he was writing. The show that the technology have save effort, time and energy to write more with less skills.

6. Malleable: This words mean that "a thing is easy to change or to break through"

Meaning in passage: The passage said that the brain is a very easy to change obstacles that will get tolerance if you use to much of anything. Techonology is not an exception.