humans suck.

random fact: my group SUCKS at commenting on blogs. just thought i should share.
anyway......................
Google is making us stupid. perfect example: ME. i always self guess myself (mainly on spelling) and refer to google to make sure i have spelled it correctly (you know that handy dandy line that says did you mean: blah blah). however i do think that google is a blessing. i mean come on. all the knowledge you could possibly want unknowingly  in front of you just waiting to be searched for. kudos to those two Stanford kiddos who thought of the whole concept of google.
i do think it is sad that google is like held up to the same level as food and water. you know. like you can not live with out it. it processes information for us and gives it to use in like a sentence or two. honestly. when i saw the article on the AP Lit blog the first thing i did was see how long it was. why? because i didnt want to deal with a long (possibly) boring article. i think we all do it. the longer the scrollbar on the right the better. no joke when i bought cat's cradle i was happy it had big font and not that many pages. i don't think we know how to handle a big book anymore or a big article. i know for my press releases for AP environmental science i skip over long articles. i think it's human nature. why? because of our dang small attention spans. not going to lie, reading carr's article was an irony in itself. the article was sort of long and i guess you could say somewhat difficult. there were a few moments when that my mind dove off to other thoughts (i was thinking about Thoroughly Modern Millie and how excited to see it this winter just incase you wanted to know) as you surf the net, carr says "A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we're glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper's site. The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration." yup. that happens to me all the time. in fact it just happened. thank you facebook. i think this also explains why everyones blog posts are so random. they jump from subject to subject but you know what. it's alright. why? because at least we can (well most of us) acknowledge our problem.
Vonnegut (fact: i just used google to make sure i spelled his name right) is a pure genius in my eyes for writing his book the way he did. i think it tricks the mind to think that its engulfing more information and being more productive than usual. like oh. i read 20 chapters last night when it was like fifteen pages yet we can still process and enjoy the book. magic.
it's quite scary how "stupid" and reliant we are on the internet.....let's just imagine how the younger generations are going to turn out.