I’m choosing to forward a small portion of the post I wrote
in response to first reading Carr. Back in my young-naive days of unit one, I
was close-minded as to what Carr truly had to offer with his words. Now I see
the light. With this forwarding, I’m using the analogy of the Internet rather
than the process used to explain the exploding phenomenon we’ve come to know as
Linsanity.
My older post:
He’s
arguing that the new ago of technology and the explosion of the Internet is
changing the way humans think. He uses the example of a research paper taking
days to compile all the data, whereas now those days spent in the stacks are
turned into minutes at the computer thanks to a friendly search engine called
Google. Another metaphor he used that I found interesting was “Once I was a
scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a
Jet Ski” when he was referring the fact that his mind now expects to take in
information the way the Net distributes it.
What
I’m forwarding:
The fact that Carr references the speed of the Internet
makes me think of Jeremy Lin. After an outbreak performance against the Nets
just earlier this month, millions of people were buzzing about him on the
Internet. People like Shaq were tweeting that they’re going “Linsane” and
everyone else was commenting on how he came out of nowhere. Because the
Internet gives us the opportunity to communicate on a mass level so quickly people
like Lin can gain popularity. Back in the 80’s when people like Michael and
Magic played the game, if a team was hot you heard about it if they were really
hot. News took a long time to spread across the country, now it takes one game
and a few hundred friendly tweets.
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