From The
Shallows, chapter “Nine: Search,
Memory,” create a “quotation sandwich”: locate a pertinent quote, build a
“frame” around it, and “blend” the author’s words with your own. While being
fair and accurate, use the quote, but bend it to your purpose; use it for your
“I say”—yes / no / okay, but.
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Gabrielle Tallman
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ENG 1003
29 Tuesday 2015
Carr write his opinions down in his book, "The Shallows." He shares how technology has a huge impact in our lives and how it influences the way we think. He broadens his view by describing the effect it has on memory. As he states himself, "The Net quickly came to be seen as a replacement for, rather than just a supplement to personal memory." He's concerned that as the Internet age continues, people will stop attempting to memorize things. After all, what's the point if we can just Google it?
Peter Cote
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English 1003
29 Sept. 2015
Chapter 9 The Shallows Quotation Sandwich
Nicholas Carr explains that people are relying too heavily on the internet and not on their own knowledge. Carr is a well renowned author who has written several books. He states that “The Web is a technology of forgetfulness.” (193) The internet has caused several of people to lose their concentration and ability to decipher text. Although I agree with Carr stating the internet has led to lack of attentiveness, I do believe the internet has good benefits as well. I believe that, in order to analyze unlimited data, there needs to be a balance between the internet and the brain. The internet on one hand with all the technology available with a click of a button, and the brain with all the analysis and deep thinking. Carr talks about the internet explaining that “It provides us with a much more capacious memory while clearing out space in our brains for more valuable and even “more human” computations.” (182) Carr explains that, instead of having people remember details about events, they can just go online to see what happened. He shows us that the internet is taking place for us having to remember so we can have more room in our brain for other calculations. I disagree with Carr because people cannot look online to retrieve a memory they had when they were younger. People also will not be able to think for themselves causing the brain synapses to break or not be there which makes the brain not able to make other calculations.
Breanna Roper
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English 1003
28 September 2015
Technology Disturbances on Concentration
Before technology and specifically the internet constantly being at our fingertips came along, we relied on books, newspapers, and other printed sources to engage with. During this time, we were constantly using our brains to ponder on new ideas, and thinking deeply. We had the ability to focus on written word without having distractions from several different sources of technology, internet, and even social media. Nicholas Carr shares this belief. He describes, "The influx of competing messages that we receive whenever we go online not only overloads our working memory; it makes it much harder for our frontal lobes to concentrate our attention on any one thing" (194). In simpler terms, Carr is stating that when we go online, we are overwhelmed with so many distractions that we can not concentrate, even by choice. The more of the internet we decide to use, the more our concentration levels are going to slowly decrease.
Kaylee Young
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English 1003
28 September 2015
Chap 9-Quotation Sandwich
In chapter nine, Carr develops the idea that memorization is not as needed as before. The internet processes all information people could possibly know. People do not allow their minds to read things in depth, to fully understand and memorize them. According to Carr, “Memorization is a waste of time.” (181) I agree with this statement because why should we memorize stuff we can initially look up on the internet whenever we need it. Our memories are slowly changing its storage, due to new technological advances.
Aidan Bish
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SWU English 1003
28 September 2015
The Shallow Memory
Nicholas Carr is a renowned internet intellectual, and his book The Shallows carries a well-researched and somewhat foreboding message about the Internet’s effects on our brains.
He argues, using history, neurology, and modern studies, that the Internet is rerouting the way that we think in a way that is detrimental to our ability to think and, as he addresses in Chapter Nine, our memory. He argues that “the Net quickly came to be seen as a replacement for, rather than just a supplement to, personal memory”. It is his belief that we use the Internet for information instead of our minds, which not only places enormous dependence on what he considers a dangerous tool but also weakens our ability to recall things on our own. While I agree to an extent - I am very likely to look up a fact rather than rake my brain for it - I disagree with his idea that it is replacing our own minds completely. The Internet has an ability to supplement and add detail to our minds in a way that was never possible when every fact needed to be hunted down in a vast research text.
Devante Wrenn
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English 101
29 September 2015
Chapter nine quotations
In chapter nine Carr is say our brain plays a big role because we use it to remember certain thing. We tend to remember explicit things. He says “when we talk about memories, what we are usually referring to are the explicit ones…” these types of memories are ones that meant something in our life. I agree because what I remember are main thing that meant something to me. Those things will stay in my head for a very long time because they have a meaning to me. I believe that goes for most people because the more details and information you get, and you become very interested in it then you tend to remember it more than other things.
Hunter Hebert
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English 1003
29 September 2015
Interruptions of Memory Formation
Carr discusses how the advancements in technology have, over time, robbed our brain of its ability to deeply take in new information, store it and form a memory. We are so easily distracted from the task at hand, especially by the internet, that we tend to struggle to remember anything we read or did before. Carr concludes from the studies of Müller and Pilzecker that “Short-term memories don’t become long-term memories immediately, and the process of their consolidation is delicate. Any disruption, whether a jab to the head or a simple distraction, can sweep the nascent memories from the mind.” (184). Along with Carr’s argument, I feel that the increase in internet usage is slowly setting our minds back in our natural abilities. When we constantly search for quick information, we do not allow ourselves the time to form the memory. However, we are unaware of this behavior due to the fact that if we forget something, we can find hundreds of answer with the click of a mouse. We are so tempted by the flashing ads that we ironically forget about giving our brains the time to allow memories to form.
Carter Groomes
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English 1003
29 September 2015
Quotation Sandwich
In the beginning of Chapter 9 of The Shallows, Nicolas Carr takes us back to simpler times where there was no technology. One of the names he brings up is Socrates, and he warned the people that he fears there will be a technology that will kill what we have learned to adore and cherish. Nicolas Carr states that “Books provide a supplement to memory, but they also, as eco puts it, ‘Challenge and improve memory; they do not narcotize it” (178). I believe that what Carr says is not true because if someone wants to really memorize something, they will memorize it whether they are on a computer or reading a book. The reason the elders of our generation scold the youth about how all this technology is because if our generation fails they want to have an excuse of why we did fail. However, in reality they were the ones who invented this technology and now they blame us for the faults and failures in the inventions.
Anna Newton
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English 1003
29 September 2015
Chapter 9: Quotation Sandwich
Nicholas Carr, a well known author that writes about technology and culture, believes that the internet is taking over our memory. In Chapter 9 of “The Shallows”, he states, “As people grew accustomed to writing down their thoughts and reading the thoughts others had written down, they became less dependent on the contents of their own memory.” (177). I disagree with his argument on the internet taking away our memory. I believe that the internet is a helpful source that encourages people to learn and memorize more facts, and gives us the ability to store more facts and opinions from comprehending information via pictures, videos, etc.
Trevor Porter
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English 1003
September 29, 2015
Chapter Nine Quotation Sandwhich
In the beginning of chapter nine Carr starts off with many examples from Socrates time when he worried for hamanity's preservation of memory. Then he has this one quote that caught my attention, "The Net quickly came to be seen as a replacement for, rather than just a supplement to, personal memory" [180] I can sort of see this as true but under different circumstances it can change. The Net isn't going to replace the ability our brain has, our brain is much smarter than a computer. On a smaller scale you can say that not everything you need is on the internet. For some things you still have to do hard research.
Logan Radwanski
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English 1003
29 September 2015
Chapter Nine Quotation Sandwich
“Search, Memory” is chapter nine where Carr starts off with Socrates’s concern that books are bad for the memory as it damages it but do not better it. He goes on to elaborate upon this issue with what other great scholars in history have said about this as some agreed and disagreed. Bringing this concern to current age but books replaced with the Net and the affects it has on your memory process. The Internet does allow us to remember more but has a capacity level while the Internet is hurting the brain’s memory and its capacity is boundless. “…Eco says, expressing “an eternal fear: the fear that a new technology achievement could abolish or destroy something that we consider precious, fruitful, something that represents for us a value in itself, and a deeply spiritual one.”’ (Carr 178) I agree with idea as our dependence on the Internet has increased with our daily usage of it. It’s not helping our memory storage but hurting it as our brains have a “boundless capacity”. Because we aren’t exercising and training it as we use to making it harder to store long term memories. Relating with the title of Carr’s book What The Internet is Doing to Our Brains, and his main idea/point of his entire book.