Actually, I Prefer Abstract Painting

Claim: Technology, the internet and Google specifically, are changing out mindset on how to obtain information. It also affects how our society responds to long, traditional readings and books as oppose to skimming, skipping, or choosing generally short works.

Statement of Claim: “What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.”

Subclaims: Googling is taking the place of actual researching.

Our society is becoming lazier in regards to our steps of gathering and processing information.

Old media is morphing to fit the mold of the new media.

Our "intellectual technologies" take away a sensory feeling.

We are losing the ability to interpret deep readings.

Support: The mechanical clock example -- we're putting more importance on "mathematically measurable sequences" of technology rather than using our own natural reasoning.

Nietzsche's use of the typewriter -- the use of this new instrument caused his "already terse prose [to] become even tighter." With the help of this new technology alone, Nietzsche's form of expression took on a great change.

The British Library's logs -- it is a proven pattern that although these internet readers had saved a few long articles to come back to later, most of their time spent was on browsing. Logs showed that people spent less time on article than usual, suggesting that skimming is at use. People also tended to favor reading shorter articles, and forgetting the long ones they had even saved.

Warrant: Carr is speaking towards an audience of internet users that are familiar with Google and/or other similar search engines. He assumes that his readers are frequent internet users and are somewhat dependent on it on a day-to-day basis.