A little learning

I am currently reading "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr. I am only about 30 pages into it, but it has already posed some great points. He discusses how we have to reanalyze how we thing. He talks of how we no longer read left to right, top to bottom the internet has made us jump around. the quote from Carr that has really stuck with me is "I used to be a scuba diver of words, but now I am only a guy on a Jet Ski". Which is quite true, now that we have tons on information at our fingertips we skim, we look for things that make us excited and discard the rest. He talks of how we have to change the way we view our brain and how we process information.

I look forward to continuing to read his thought. Carr so far has kept me interested because he breaks into the historical side of studying the brain, and how for the longest time we believe that once you were in your 20's you brain no longer took on information unless it dumped other info.

What has been great I have been thinking for years how The internet has made me A.D.D. I can no longer really focus. I can only focus in small burst. I can't sit and read book for long period. I can't even play a video game straight through anymore. I have to jump around. Other wise I get bored. Long gone are the days of spending hours playing jacks and hunting down lightning bugs.