After completing The Shallows, there were many instances that got me thinking whether should I treat those piece of information as a guidance or merely as a 'call for action' kind of message. There were, also, at little times when such contradicting views occurs that got me all turn off by the latter, indicating that there were enough flaws to coexist by rather having a solution, Nicholas Carr opts for a all-round, reflection thinking upon each one of the readers. While some might argue that this method is quite uncommon and have tendency for moving people, there are also others that could possibly refute every thing that Carr mentions in this novel as , inevitably, we should get used to technology as we advance our human developments and evolutions.
Should I start with the strong instances where it had impact on my standpoint on this global issue, it would be the one where he made me realize on how delusional and ridiculous technology, particularly the internet, had made our daily interactions as 'normal' humans fades away. Nowadays, you and me are victims of this discreet madness where we face the LED screen more than we face others. It is no doubt that somewhat in the midst of realizing you were tricked or fooled by this new ways of spending time, others still haven't woken up yet, and slowly you'll be repeating the same cycle just like what everyone favors on doing with their portable gadgets. We have seen the world evolve on the ways we opt for our relaxation or release zones, on the portable gadgets ever so often that we did not realize that if we don't have it on our hands we couldn't even live our life for that day. This might seem like such an unavoidable consequences of event that we had gotten used to, and for some readers, it could be useless mentioning the Internet flaws due to the fact that this author himself was born on an era when technology wasn't as prominent as had been in todays world. Although it was quite interesting on the ways he points out all the norms of being humans and how contradictory it is for those traits to be compared to everyone we know around us, well, for the exception for the super-old citizens and babies, as 3 year old nowadays even knows how to scroll the IPAD.
It is quite imperative to realize that all of us have been relying on technology for so long as we aged together with the world, not realizing that trend itself is the major culprit of all these. However, Carr points out that we ourselves has the highest stakes of the blaming part. At this point, it could sound like we, as masses, should change our habits in reducing our technological involvements in our daily lives while being more socially active outdoors and be more realistically effective in communications. At the same time, it could also sounds like we ourselves as a human beings existed only to be dependent of the environment and our inelastic habit of wanting the easier path badly that we had become 'dumber' than our predecessors. Carr had pointed out in the earlier sections of his novel where the human brain capacity prior to the negative tech-influenced ways of processing data is way more sharper. He highlighted the scientific process involving grey matters on our Spinal cord which directly influenced our memory boost and analytical abilities. Carr also includes the frontal lobes of our head in the scientific explanation, which was enough to convince most readers at that point of chapter. In overall, I believe that Carr standpoint on his novel had provided everything in a critically thought analysis and it was clear that technology itself cause as much negativities as it causes benefits, But who are we to judge, especially if 100% of the world community is using these products as their pivotal drive in their daily lives. So, why do we feel guilty at certain point of its usage if it is not a crime we're committing. This clearly shows that this issue had long been a debate and clearly had become one of our best food for thoughts for the years to come.
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