Response Nick Carr Page 5 G-M

Shae Hughes,Jeremy Keen, Hope White, Nate Averna

In our section Nick Carr is talking about how we are trying to speed up the way that we can get information into our minds. More or less based on the efficiency and speed of technology into our thought process. For example Carr references Fredrick Taylor, who timed his shop workers and how fast they were able to complete a task in their work.
Carr goes along to state his claim that," Taylor's system is still very much with us; it remains the ethic of industrial manufacturing." He is implying that because that the system has worked so far that there is no need to change it today as Carr suggests ,"Taylor's ethic is beginning to govern the realm of the mind as well." We find this to be a very convincing claim because, many users of new technology, suggests continual change. For example, computer games can no longer be played on the same old systems, in fact in order to keep up with the rapid release of always top of the line games, you must update your computer. We find this a claim because we necessarily don't agree with.
Another claim that Carr uses in our section is, "The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network's reigning business model as well." In this claim he is saying and later enforcing in his article, "The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought." This again is very debatable, as more conservative people may tend to disagree with employees taking time to fully understand the directions by taking time and using concentrated thought.