Summary
Nicholas Carr, in "Search, Memory," the ninth chapter in his book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Carr talks about the brain and how it holds short term memory and long term memory. He starts off by talking about how the internet has been a go-to place for information that isn't stored in the brain. He basically means that the internet has replaced the memory of the brain. Carr later talks about the brains limitless ability to store information. A lot of people these days use the internet to gather information. This process however isn't always good because memorization requires attention and depth, something that we don't train our brains to do when we are reading information online. All we really do is just skim the information and not process them.
Response
Carr says in Chaper 9 of his book, "People didn't have to memorize everything anymore. They could look it up." This sentence struck me because it was exactly what I do a lot, although it isn't a good technique. Like Carr says, memorization requires attention and depth. When we constantly use the internet for every little bit of information, we don't truly learn anything because all we do is skim the information. Me personally, when people try to verbally teach me things, sometimes I find myself not really pay attention because I am a visual person, and I need to look at things on the internet.
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