From The
Shallows, chapter “Ten: A Thing
like Me,” 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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Peter Cote
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Chapter 10 The Shallows Quotation Sandwich
Nicholas Carr is an author that has made several books including The Big Switch and Does IT Matter?. The well renowned author Nicholas Carr states that people cannot learn a lot from the internet because there is too much information. He explains that the internet causes divided attention and loss of concentration. Carr states that “our ability to learn can be severely compromised when our brains become overloaded with diverse stimuli online.” (214). Although I agree with Carr stating that the internet makes it hard to learn, I also believe that it can make it easier as well. If people take out the distractions from the internet and only focus on the small details that they need to know than the internet is beneficial. I also argue that, like Carr, the internet can cause the brain to not be able to think because of all the information. There is sometimes too much information on one topic, so your brain cannot focus on one specific thing. The abundance of information on the internet has caused people’s brains to lose it’s ability to comprehend the details, but the internet has also helped learn new information by having sites that allow people to take practice tests and such.
Hunter Hebert
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13 October 2015
Chapter 10 Quotation Sandwich
In Carr’s The Shallows, he argues how although we, as humans, are behind the rapid progressions of technology, we have lost control and instead become the products of our creations. While Carr gives many examples and references of human minds that have contributed to what technology has become today, he also presents the evidence and argument that we have become so dependent on this technology that we have lost who we are. In chapter 10, Carr makes the statement that “…we program our computers and thereafter they program us.” (214). While it is possible to believe that people have enough self-control to avoid this, I must ultimately agree with Carr in this argument. As humans, especially humans in today’s society, we crave a fast-paced lifestyle; wanting constant and immediate reply, acceptance and interaction. This is evident in how quickly we are producing newer and more efficient technologies. Having been accustomed to this for majority of our lives, in most cases, we are unaware of this addiction that we are forming with each update and smart phone release. We constantly need more and quickly outgrow the “new” for the “newest”. While it would be re-assuring for society to think we have control over our use of technology, it is evident that technology has control over us.
Logan Radwanski
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13 October 2015
Ch.10 Quotation Sandwich In the Shallows written by Nicholas Carr, he explores what the Internet is doing to our brains and minds. In chapter ten he recaps from previous chapters of what the Internet and other technologies have done to our brains and minds but includes software programs that are created/programed to make our lives easier. “The easy way may not always be the best way, but the easy way is the way our computers and search engines encourage us to take.” (218) With today’s software programs and technology, our lives are a lot easier to those back in the twentieth century. Thanks to Google and other programs similar to it, it is a lot easier to research, lookup, or find something than looking through a book, yellow pages, or pulling out a physical map. But is that really helping us? We lose old skills and ways when we exercise with these new technologies and become more dependent on them. Just as a London cabbie driver will lose their knowledge and capabilities from memorizing the streets of London if/when they use GPS systems for then their memory will deteriorate away. But doesn’t society encourage us to use technology more today? Causing us to be unable to break away from it as it has become so interconnected in our lives now with computers & search engines today.
Devante Wrenn
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13 October 2015
Sandwich
Carr says from a question by Alan Turking “Can machines think?”. Some people had believed during the Turing test that machines can think. They just wanted the human qualities to seem more real but that is a start to here machine cant think. I say that machines cant think because we are the ones that think for them. A machine is programmed to do what we you tell it. It gives you options but it doesn’t tell you what to d. It doesn’t have a mind of its on where it can suggestion either or, it just has one answer. It also doesn’t show any emotion which is a big key in talking to a person. Without that we don’t have a real meaning or eyesight of what to do. So what do we prefer machines or us?
Aidan Bish
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SWU English 1003
13 October 2015
Chapter 10 McQuote
Carr is a well-researched writer, acknowledged by experts in the field of psychology and others who are looking into the effects of the internet on the brain. His book The Shallows, concluded by his tenth chapter called “A Thing Like Me”, discusses just that. Carr traces the progression of technology and neurology, and eventually discusses what he considers the disturbing relationship between Artificial and natural intelligence. He argues, through the words of Martin Heidegger, that the more we identify with computers and “operate” the way that they do, “our ability to engage in ‘meditative thinking,’ which [Heidegger] saw as the very essence of our humanity, might become a victim of headlong progress.” Essentially, what makes us human may be lost in the race for efficiency. While I can appreciate the value of contemplative thinking, I also believe that as we move further into progress we are able to reflect on its effect and counter it. Thus, I do not share Carr’s fear of terrible effects, because I believe that part of existing as an intelligent, technologically advanced society involves the ability to set down our technology and do things in a way that is healthier and possibly more progressive. In the same way that hunters set down rifles and re-adopt bows and arrows to revitalize the “sport” of hunting, ancient arts of writing and communication will not die, but will become part of a more efficient and better rounded society that uses them to remain healthy and to fullfill the gaps left by use of computers.
Gabrielle Tallman
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13 October 2015
Nicholas Carr thinks that technology has impacted humans in a negative way because of how obsessed we become with our devices. We are losing our human qualities as technology and computers have become more prevalent in today's society After the invention of the simulator, ELIZA by Joseph Weizenbaum, there was a question of real intelligence since the program could actually have a conversation with a person. Carr says that, "In simulating a human being, however clumsily, ELIZA encouraged human beings to think of themselves as simulations of computers." ELIZA had such a big impact on people and was a resource to so many. Even now we have Siri and as the movie, "Her", shows us, we can be so easily addicted to artificial beings.
Carter Groomes
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13 October 2015
Quotation Sandwich
In Nicolas Carr’s The Shallows, the common theme throughout the whole book is that technology is capable of taking over our life and changing who we are. This common theme strikes fear into the readers hearts because of what our generation has and will continue to become. The bad part about that is the fact that we will not realize the change and what it is doing to us. Carr provides us with an example of this, “is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people”(205). This is exactly like a recent film I have watched called “Her”. In that film humans have adapted to a lifestyle with an Operating System always by their side. It takes away the personality and communication skills they have because they are too focused on the OS. I belive that this is exactly right and our generation is like this. However, we can stop it from happening if we know about what could happen before we try it out.
Anna Newton
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October 13, 2015
Chapter 10: Quotation Sandwich
Nicholas Carr, a well known author of technology and culture, believes that as technology advances it inquires more human-like characteristics. But he also makes the argument that, “Even as our technologies become extensions of ourselves, we become extensions of our technologies.” (209). This meaning that, not only does technology have an affect on people, but people affect technology. I agree with Carr’s argument, because if it was not for humans, technology would not even exsist.
Breanna Roper
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13 October 2015
Quotation Sandwich
In Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows", Carr makes it apparent how he feels on the effects of technology on our minds, and he continuously makes points regarding other works and his responses to them. He chooses work that supports his beliefs that as we advance further into this technological era we have created, we our declining intellectually. The generation we are living in is consumed by their devices, living lives on them, losing the ability to have compassion and feel real emotions and connect with other humans. Carr describes an experiment held by USC's Brain and Creativity Institute, which indicates that "...The more distracted we become, the less able we are to experience the subtlest, most distinctively human forms of empathy, compassion, and other emotions" (221). As we become more distracted by the internet and our devices, we begin to lose our abilities to interact with others the way that we are meant to. We can no longer truly connect, we just skim the surface now due to indulgence into our devices.
Trevor Porter
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English 1003
October 13, 2015
Ch 10 Quotation Sandwhich
In chapter 10 of Nicholas Carr's The Shallows, he goes into conversation about a certain computer program named ELIZA. She was developed as a program to hold a conversation with the user, but people became too attached. Carr shows that, "... what shocked him was how quickly and deeply people using the software 'became emotionally involved with the computer,' talking to it as if it were an actual person." [205] People were definitely taking this too far, mistaking a computer for a person is sad. Personally I believe if you think you computer is a person, you need to go outside and do things and make friends.
Kaylee Young
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English 1003
13 October 2015
Chapter 10- Quotation Sandwich
In the Shallows, Carr argues that technology effects the mind while incorporating numerous people’s ideas to support his argument. Technological advances have took a toll on our everyday lives. Chapter ten focuses on how new software has initially allowed our most personal of human activities to become “rituals” that we mindlessly do on an everyday basis. According to Carr, “rather than acting according to our own knowledge and intuition, we go through the motions.(219)” Carr turns his whole argument into a simpler text, which simply means that our computers have given us the mindless abilities and task we do during the day.
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