What I found interesting was the shifts Carr spoke about. The first shift he spoke about happened around 750 BC, with the development of the Greek alphabet. Being able to write down ideas and stories changed the way we thought and communicated, Carr even says that that changed “intellectual history: the shift from an oral culture, in which knowledge was exchanged mainly by speaking, to a literary culture, in which writing became a major medium for expressing thought.” This shift probably seemed like the better of the two, it has its obvious advantages but many stood against it. Such as Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus, who believes “writing threatens to make us shallower thinkers…”
The second shift Carr speaks about began in the middle of the 20th century. We began focusing our time and attention on electronic media. “”the printing press and its products are being pushed from the center of our intellectual lives to its edges” This shift also has major advantages but we are becoming more aware of it disadvantages and how we are being affected.
My point is that I think its interesting how Carr tell us about these two shifts, and clearly states when they happen, I thought it was a slow continuous process, but it clearly has points where the process happens at an alarmingly fast rate.