2 IS GOOGLE MAIKING US STUPIDKey Quotes: Bruce Friedman shows how the habit of getting quick information and having avariety of information at our disposal is affecting the ability to retain once read information andthe overall inability to have the patience to understand and comprehend information.Main Idea: In the Quote Bruce simply means to show that the different aspects of the internetaffecting the daily cognitive habit like reading due to the lack of the patience. Me: The patience is decreasing along with the brain retention as searching for information hasbecome easier.Quote 3“We are not onlywhatwe read,” says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at TuftsUniversity and the author ofProust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.“We arehowwe read.” Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style thatputs “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind ofdeep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long andcomplex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become“mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connectionsthat form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.Key Quote: The different aspects of reading includes the fact that the way one reads andperceives the book depends on the different aspects of reading about a topic and the differentways of approaching the topic for the proper understanding.Main Idea: The main idea of the quote is saying that individual should focus on the amount ofinformation gained from the interaction of the different aspects of reading.

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