"Is Google Making Us Stupid"

"I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle." 

Explanation: In this example, Nicholas Carr had have trouble concentrated on reading books that he didn't used to have. He now can hardly concentrate in "a book or a lengthy article". He just felt like doing something esle after reading a page or two. 

"For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet. The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after. Even when I’m not working, I’m as likely as not to be foraging in the Web’s info-thickets’reading and writing e-mails, scanning headlines and blog posts, watching videos and listening to podcasts, or just tripping from link to link to link."

Explanation: After the Internet was born, Carr have utilize the Internet everyday. He described it as "a godsend to me as a writer". Now, he doesn't have to go to the library and spend a few hours there per day to read and take notes of books. He could just click a few click and there we go. The Internet have effected the thinking aspect of human. We are starting to grow lazier, we are starting to think that the Internet is way better than books because it doesn't consume as much time and doesn't consume as much money. 

"Scott Karp, who writes a blog about online media, recently confessed that he has stopped reading books altogether. “I was a lit major in college, and used to be [a] voracious book reader,” he wrote. “What happened?” He speculates on the answer: “What if I do all my reading on the web not so much because the way I read has changed, i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?”

Explanation: This explain more specificaly about how the technology and Internet change a man. This also show how convinience the Internet is.