1. What Carr means when he says the mind is changing is that because we have moved into the internet age, we read more frequently, but it is more difficult to do it in large time frames.
2. A benefit of the internet is that information for researching is much easier to come across and access. Another benefit is that we are reading more than we did in the past because our main technological pass time was watching televisions, and now it's using the internet. Another benefit mentioned is that it makes thinking easier.
3. The internet shaped this user:
"Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print,” he wrote earlier this year."
4. Carr's main concern with google's omnipresence is that google is thinking for us and we are not doing enough mental thinking of our own.
Another thing to add is that it is of big companies' best economic interest to drive us to distraction. They know how we think and they try to manipulate us so they can make money.
Allison Bishop & Patrick Katusin
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