“The more they use the web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing.”

The evidence that Carr uses is from his friends who are “literary types”. One is Scott Karp who writes a blog on online media. He claims that he has stopped reading books altogether even though he was a lit major in college, the reason he gives for this is the convenience of using the web. Another person that he quotes is Bruce Friedman a blogger on the use of computers in medicine and pathologist at the University of Michigan Medical School. He says that he can no longer read a long article anything over three or four paragraphs he just scans.