choose a (specific) form of technology (not the internet or Google or cellphones) and argue for its unintended consequences

In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr argues that the internet is influencing how we acquire knowledge and consume media. Specifically, Carr suggests that we may be losing the facility for “deep reading,” as tools like Google reduce the effort needed to find information. Carr compared more traditional—non-internet—reading to the new, dominant mode of consumption: “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet ski” (2). In 3-4 full pages, choose a (specific) form of technology (not the internet or Google or cellphones) and argue for its unintended consequences.

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