Nicholas Carr Internet and Focusing April 25, 2011

I agree with Carr in his thinking that the Internet doesn't really do us good. It has made it almost completely to nearly impossible to concentrate on any given activity for more than a few minutes. I think that the internet does make a lot smarter and more proficient in activities that have to do with the internet. I also think that they make us dumber in the sense that nobody is able to concentrate on anything they do on the computer for more than a minute. To me, I think that patience is important and I remember that famous saying, "Great things take time." I completely agree with this saying because most of the great things that a person wants takes a lot of work and patience. The internet negatively reinforces a person's patience level and I think that the internet has made a generation of computer generated drones that can't stay focused for an extended amount of time. this could even be perhaps why SAT scores and testing scores are down because the kids can't focus on the test even if they do know all of the information. I agree with Carr's conclusions completely because the internet has made us impatient and has turned us into "high-speed date-processing machines."