He claims that the internet has actually affected how human beings process information.

He begins to illustrate this point using a scene from Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space
Odyssey where HAL, the supercomputer, is being disassembled by the man the machine nearly
(purposefully) killed. Carr emphasizes the fact that the computer could feel its brain being
taken away as the man stripped it of its memory circuits. This is the tone that Carr sets to then
place his theory on the reader.

Nicholas Carr is concerned that the Internet is making us dumber. He believes this is not merely
the result of the content we are consuming via the world wide web, text messages, email, Twitter
and Facebook, but a side effect of the medium through which this content is transmitted and
consumed. Even more ominously, the change, according to Carr, is not limited to a deleterious
effect on the way we think, but includes the neural structures in our brains that enable thinking.

used good examples of previous innovations which changed human thought, such as the printing
press and the clock.
aligned article's thinking with that of Socrates, who challenged the invention of writing, thinking
that it would "cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful."
cited strong personal assertions (as well as the thoughts of colleagues), making the article
relatable.
He also included that the internet makes people more reliant on the internet, to the point in where
people stop using their own knowledge and brain
quote from Plato's Phaedrus criticizing the once-new advent of writing: "This discovery of yours
will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will
trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselvesthey will be hearers of
many things and have learned nothing"