In one experiment, people who relied heavily on GPS performed worse on navigation tasks that required them to remember routes. Even more concerning, frequent GPS users showed declines in hippocampal function – the brain region responsible for spatial memory.
I've noticed this with myself as i personally always use GPS and cant imagine myself going anywhere outside the city without it.
It’s the difference between climbing a mountain and taking a helicopter to the top. Sure, you get the view either way, but one experience builds strength, resilience, and pride – the other is just a free ride.
This is a great analogy as it says how taking the easier ways makes you more reliant while in contrast doing it yourself strengthens you and makes you cable of doing it on your own.
"You are right," Nietzsche replied, "our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler, Nietzsche's prose "changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.
To me this talks about how more robotic we sound the more we use devices and I personally agree. It always feels more connected talking face to face then texting.
Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do.
Carr is expressing what many people have been expressing for a little while now and that's a low attention span and a struggle to focus on tasks.