Analysis Of They Say I Say With Readings By Nicholas Carr

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The evolution of technology has truly grown, but has all the new updates and information you can receive instantly benefiting our society or making us too dependent on technology? Nicholas Carr states in the book They Say I Say with Readings, “I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text.” He explains that reading a book without diverting his attention elsewhere has been impossible for him ever since technology has enter the spectrum. As an avid electronic user, I agree primarily because I do tend to have to force myself to focus on one task before I pick up my phone or begin to do something else. He also explains that his mind now expects us to retain information how he receives it from technology or rather google which

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