Carr qoute

“We used to have an intellectual ideal that we could contain within ourselves the whole of civilization. It was very much and ideal – none of us actually fulfilled it – but there was this sense that, through wide reading and study, you could have a depth of knowledge and could make unique intellectual connections among the pieces of information stored within your memory.”

He explains that we lose intellectual connection with the information because we don’t need it. We can just click a mouse to get all the answers.