I was hooked on this article after reading the second sentence, "My mind isn't going -- so far as I can tell -- but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think." After reading why Carr felt that way, I realized, I feel the exact same way. reading is not as easy as it used to be. I used to read entire books in one night and I practically lived at the library. Now, I only read when I have to and it seems as though I have the attention span of a three year old. I simply cannot focus on reading in-depth. I can't even read the lengthy emails my mother sends me! I think it makes complete sense that the short bursts of info we read to finish our English papers is altering the way we think. Our minds are becoming more fact-oriented and we are avoiding the upper levels of thinking and analyzing material. Its like when you take an AP class and your teacher tells you that they will no longer "spoon feed" the material to you. Well they no longer have to because the Internet does it for us, or the program on our calculator does the math problem for us. We aren't getting dumber per say, but I would agree that our thought patterns are changing.
(I also found it ironic that Carr ranted for 6.5 pages on how people no longer read long articles.)
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