Through the art of "power scanning", long passages have become too difficult to "absorb", according to Bruce Friedman (Carr, 3). Nicolas Carr thinks we have learned this habit, because while we read an article, there are links with enticing headlines waiting to be read and advertisements flashing on the side of the screen especially for us from companies that have access to our information to capture our interest. All this results in the "distraction" of our concentration (Carr, 12). It spreads our attention by giving us a wealth of things to look at, freeing up time to articulate information. Nicolas Carr argues that by allowing the Internet to invade our “quiet spaces,” we will sacrifice ourselves (Carr, 13). The philosopher René Descartes said: “I think, therefore I am”. The idea of our ability to think as part of our essence, as Descartes said, is established by Nicolas Carr. It assumes that the Internet is robbing humans of their essence. Without the ability to think we become “artificial intelligence” (Carr,
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