Pardon me Clive.. Will you pass the Grey Poupon?

   Hedges and Carr address literacy as a problem. Specifically, Carr argues that Google and the evolution of the Internet are making us dumber because they are changing the way we interpret information. Thompson’s argument is the unsurprising positive side that I never thought I’d hear. I mean seriously, all we’ve been talking about is how the Internet can make us dumber. Seeing that the new age of Internet is actually making our writing better, well that’s nice to hear. It wasn’t surprising to see that we “Write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text.” My grandma actually sent me this ridiculous email of this women’s story where she said, I was born before the Internet, I was born before cell phones and many other revolutionary inventions of out time. The last line of the email says in big bold red font. THIS WOMAN IS ONLY 59 YEARS OLD. It’s hard for people of our generation to realize how much has happened while we were in our toddler years. I remember when I was on winter break this year my dad told me that in the book he was reading it said that Steve Jobs was born at the perfect year for him to be at a perfect age to completely revolutionize the computer age. I thought back to the saying “Timing is everything.” It also made me think of what will come. Thompson also compliments our generation for being able to write to an audience. He says, “The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing.” I liked that this was included in the article because it shows that the way are writing it changing. Similar to the way we are thinking is changing. Sound familiar?