Human Involution

Online technologies have changed many people’s life. Obviously, computers become a part of our life, because almost every person uses the internet every day. Along with the development of internet, new problems were appeared recently. First of all, let’s take a closer look at past. There are some differences between now and past. At first, the way we read books has changed. In the past we read a printed book but now we read books online. Reading online books could reduce the ability of readers. Then, in the past, we had to go to library to get information we want. Now everything is changed, if we need some information, the only thing we should do is open our computer click something you want to search. Most of information would be found quickly on internet, it called “efficiency”. Finally, the way we lived has changed enormously because of internet. The internet makes people lives easier than before, but it also make people lazier than before. Now, we could do many things on internet, such as buy food, clothes, books, even house rent or any other fee we might pay through the internet. If someone asks can we live without going outside? The answer is “yes”. However, is this life you want? I don’t think so. I believe if people keep depending on internet too much, there will burring a human involution. I will discuss why the way we lives is a involution by comparing similarities and differences form Nicholas Carr’s, “Is Google Making Us Stoopid?” and Peter Suderman’s, “Treating Water in a Sea of Date.” There are two ways reading a book today, reading printed books and reading online books. Some people believe reading printed books are more comfortable than reading online books. According to Carr’s opinion, reading printed books can make people easier to focus on content of the book. However, reading books online is not that easy to immersing. “Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do.”(Carr, 2011) There are some ideas why people can’t focus on content of a online book. Firstly, there are some interesting news and many advertisements on the same screen with a book. Therefore, concentrate on a book would be a little hard for this situation. Secondly, there are many books on it and too many choices. Thus, people might easily lose themselves on it, just like a kid walk into a forest made by candy. On the other hand, reading books to fellow pages on screens is also not easy (Suderman, 2011). Suderman mentions his eyes start to tear when he read books online, and it’s very hard to remember details. Bruce Friedman believe that he almost lose the ability to read and understand a longish article. (Carr, 2011) These evidences show the reading capacity of people was weakened. A reading involution seems grow very fast.
Additionally, a lot of information is easier to get on internet. It causes some students don’t read as much as before. Moreover, they don’t need understand as deep as before either. “They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would “bounce” out to another site. Sometimes they’d save a long article, but there’s no evidence that they ever went back and actually read it.” (Carr, 2011) Students don’t read the entire article because they could understand the article from titles,