When I was reading chapter 9 of Carr’s book, the phase “I agree” kept popping up in my head because the things he said are actually happening on me. Carr used other people’s example to bring up the issue between memory and the Internet, it is a really common problem now. Since the internet has everything now, why would people still need to memorize stuff? “I’ve almost given up making an effort to remember anything because I can instantly retrieve the information online” (180), “Memory should now function like a simple index, pointing us to places on the Web where we can locate the information we need at the moment we need it” (181). When I read these two lines, the first thing came up in my mind was that this is what happening nowdays. Carr was trying to say that people do not remember the content of something anymore, but instead, people remember where to find the information online.
When I was reading chapter 9 of Carr’s book, the phase “I agree” kept popping up in my head because the things he said are actually happening on me. Carr used other people’s example to bring up the issue between memory and the Internet, it is a really common problem now. Since the internet has everything now, why would people still need to memorize stuff? “I’ve almost given up making an effort to remember anything because I can instantly retrieve the information online” (180), “Memory should now function like a simple index, pointing us to places on the Web where we can locate the information we need at the moment we need it” (181). When I read these two lines, the first thing came up in my mind was that this is what happening nowdays. Carr was trying to say that people do not remember the content of something anymore, but instead, people remember where to find the information online.