According to Carr, the internet has really been changing the way we think and process. When Carr said "My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy." (Carr 1) in the book, he meant to say that the gears of his brain are being renovated by the internet. Given that reading in depth was once easy for him, it began to seem hard for him the more he got addicted to the internet. In this chapter of The Shallows, Carr doesn't sound all the way sure of how our brains are being renovated by our internet addiction, but he sounds like he has a reasonable comprehension of how the internet is addictive to us. Given that he said "I think I know what's going on. For well over a decade now, I've been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet. The Web's been a godsend to me as a writer." (Carr 2), there are many appealing sources on the internet that either helps us comprehend certain things, or gives us information that anyone would try to find for themselves. Muses Davis has also said that "The Internet may have made me a less patient reader, but I think that in many ways, it has made me smarter. More connections to documents, artifacts, and people means more external influences on my thinking and thus on my writing."(Carr 8) I think by that he means that reading random long passages in novels and books about reality, won't exactly help the person process the way certain sources on the internet does. According to Carr, the internet  "was a machine that, in subtle but unmistakable ways, exerted an influence over you."(Carr 13) because it functioned the way he functioned the more he used it. The internet is a huge source of answers because the internet is full of links, and by clicking them, you have access to the document linked to it, and "travel through the online world along paths of whim and intuition"(Carr 15). Carr concluded that the reason why our brain functions differently than it did before we got the internet is not because of extensive time "staring at a computer screen"(Carr 16), but it was because he was so used to and dependent on every service the internet has to offer.

-Drew Theran