Write:
In a topic-driven, well-organized, and
well-substantiated paragraph, SUMMARIZE Carr’s argument—his “they say”—in
chapter “Three: Tools of the Mind.”
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In the third chapter of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows,” he begins by explaining that the way humans developed is seen through “maps.” It is explained that “the map is a medium that not only stores and transmits information but also embodies a particular mode of seeing and thinking” (41). He compares technology in general to human will (44): physical strength, range of senses, and enables us to reshape nature to better serve our needs. The main idea for the “They Say” in this chapter is that literature and critical thinking could not be done without a good memory which is considered as our internal “map.”
ReplyDeleteThere are four different categories of technology. The most profound category is the intellectual technology. Our intellectual technologies "have the greatest and most lasting power over what and how we think" (45). The clock, the book, and the newspaper are three examples of technologies that have changed how people think and act during their everyday lives. "Technology will alter a person's mind, and not always for the better" (55).
ReplyDeleteIn chapter three of “The Shallows”, Nicholas Carr talks about how people have always relied on technology. He uses the clock and map as examples of one of the first things people have relied on. Carr states, “The technology of the map gave to man a new and more comprehending mind, better able to understand the unseen forces that shape his surroundings and his existence” (p. 41). The map and clock started the beginning of people relying on technology and he makes you think about how crazy life might have been if we never had access to technology.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter three of “The Shallows” Carr describes how the devices and technologies have changed and how the maturation of our brains have too. He talks about how books and the internet are “… intellectual technologies” (44). Technologies being anything that can have an effect on our mental health or support it. Carr also talks about how people used to believe that we have control of our newer technologies but now we know they have control of us.
ReplyDeleteIn the third chapter of “The Shallows”: Tools of the Mind, Nicholas Carr brings to light past inventions that have changed the way people think, much like the internet. For instance, Carr explains how the clock changed the capabilities of people all over the world. He states, “We began to see, in all things and phenomena, the pieces that composed the whole, and then we began to see the pieces of which the pieces were made’’ (43). To put it another way, moments of the day had no explanation or name, yet a simple mechanism found a way to break up the day into what we now call dawn, morning, evening, etc. Similarly, the internet took complex knowledge and tore it into pieces, in other words, simplified it for people to better understand. Carr recounts how “in a purely oral culture” the way people thought was limited on “the capacity of human memory” (56). Based on Carr’s argument, it is evident that, through simplifying knowledge, people have opened their capacity of memory to a wider variety of things, therefore making us deeper thinkers than prior generations.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter three of "The Shallows", Nicholas Carr introduces the reader to "intellectual technologies", which are technologies that change and shape culture and society over time. Carr specifically goes into detail about the history of the clock and of the map. The way human minds develop as humans age is similar to the development of the map. It starts out with "primitive, literal renderings" (39) and matures into a much more complex understanding. There is an ongoing debate between determinists, who believe that humans are somewhat controlled by technology and their advancements, and instrumentalists, who believe that technology is simply a tool in which we can choose how and how much we use. Both sides have strong arguments with valid evidence, but I think Carr is going to really show us how the determinists are more accurate and then compare it to how the Internet could potential to be controlling our society.
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 3 of, “The Shallows” Carr discusses how the mind cognitively develops over time and how we intellectually change as a result. Carr also discusses technology and how that has shaped us as the “instrumentalists”. Carr states,” Sometimes our tools do what we tell them to do. Other times, we adapt ourselves to our tools’ requirements”. Regardless of what “tools” we want to use, the tool that works the most effectively will be the chosen tool. The tools then alter the way we think and how we operate as humans. The topic of this book is the internet. The “tool” has, in Carr’s opinion, made humans less attentive when reading and more apt to scan instead of actually read.
ReplyDeleteNicholas Carr purposed a newly conformed idea that humans have 4 main “intellectual technologies” in Chapter 3 of “The Shallows”. These intellectual technologies being; physical strength, the range or sensitivity of the senses, the way we reshape nature, and, the support of mental powers. He also implements how the simple technologies of the map and clock have even effected our cognitive development. The map was a device that helped people develop a sense of abstract space. While the clock forced humans to compartmentalize their lives into days, minutes, and hours.
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 3 of, "The Shallows" it begins with taking us back to drawing as a child and how we imagined everything in life to be so simple and easy flowing. He then brings in the thought of us starting with that image as children, and then growing the thought into us creating maps. He refers to us as "mapmakers" when he says, "As we go through this process if intellectual maturation, we are also acting out the entire history of mapmaking." (40). He is saying how over time our minds keep progressing and we get from where we were in the past with dirt and sticks to have a whole world mapped out. Carr says, "Every day, each of us makes conscious decisions about which tools we use and how we use them." (46-47). He refers to what we use on the daily as tools. Most of us are using too much technology as tools and we are starting to get too used to just using technology instead of using our minds and thinking of other tools we could use to help our mind grow.
ReplyDeleteIn the chapter “Tools of the Mind”, Nicholas Carr mainly discusses the evolution of certain technologies and the role of these advancements in relation to the shaping of civilization. While talking about technological innovations that changed the society, Carr emphasizes the importance of clocks and time management. Carr quotes David Landes who describes clocks as “‘an ever-visible, ever-audible companion and monitor.’ By continually reminding its owner of ‘time used, time spent, time wasted, time lost,’ it became both ‘prod and key to personal achievement and productivity'” (43). Carr believes that the invention of clocks have changed the way we see ourselves. Our lives are dictated by the clocks. Carr believes, “Every technology is an expression of human will” (44). At this point, Carr is somehow justifying the invention of internet. This also symbolizes that Carr might also be one of those people who do not wish to “go back to the way the things used to be”.
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ReplyDeleteIn Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows, chapter threes main focus is how the brain has been developing overtime in relation to the world and how we as humans adapt to said change. Nicholas Carr also shoes how having technology integrated into our lives has drastically changed how we operate in a daily cycle. Carr shows that humans have also incorporated tools and technology into their everyday lives and how technology will change in regards to humans and vice versa. In an over all point in this chapter Carr shows how technology has effected people in a negative way by hindering a persons ability to read long passages and lengths of writing cause technology in itself has summarized a even bigger whole.
In chapter three in Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows” he starts out with talking about the earliest forms of technology. He speaks of our use of maps and clocks and how our technology began to advance and shape our society. Carr states, “Though we’re rarely conscious of the fact, many of the routines of our lives follow paths laid down by technologies that came into use long before we were born.” (Carr 47). He then begins talking about the conflict between determinist and instrumentalist. Instrumentalist believe our tools are definitely under our control. On the other hand, determinist argue that we have no choice to some of the technologies we use, because they were here before us. Carr then begins to speak of the earliest forms of language and how they have made literature possible.
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