Well, this is a bit late so I apologize to my group if they were trying to comment on my blog and it was not there. So I am just going to do it now, obviously. The article was interesting and I agreed with the entire thing pretty much. When Carr said that “Research once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes”, I could totally relate to that. Now I just need a computer with internet access. Every time I need to know something, I can easily just go online and look it up. It does not even matter what it is about. The web is very big and gets updated and just grows bigger everyday. For most people, the web helps save time and a lot of energy.
On the other hand, Carr mentions that “the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation”. This is very true because of experience. Since I usually go on the internet once a day now, I feel like I have way less patience for other things now. I feel like since the net goes so fast, that everything else should go that fast too. This also goes along with my concentration because I used to be able to sit on the couch doing my homework for like four hours straight without getting up and now I can barley stay concentrated for an hour at home.
Overall, I think the web was created and was intended to must ease everyone’s lives. However, for some people, it can make their ability to think for them to decrease and thus, make them less smart. My opinion on the subject is that I like the internet’s ability to make things faster and easier as long as people do not overuse it and it makes them loose concentration.

Ok, so the video we watched in class about the world and how it changed was very interesting. Most of it, I thought, was a given, but some of the facts were things I have never heard and it showed me how much our world has changed even in the last couple years. For example, in the video, it said that “half of what they [students] learn in their first year of study will be outdated in their third year of study”. I find this piece of information very interesting, just because it happened to me in math on Friday. My class was taking notes, and I thought I was doing the problem right, but then I found out that the rules had changed to do that type of problem, and so I have to relearn something I thought I knew. It was a coincidence because we watched this video during fourth period and I had math first period. Along with this, in Dr. Alan Kirby's article about "The Death of Postmodernism" he says that “Most of the undergraduates who will take ‘Postmodern Fictions’ this year will have been born in 1985 or after, and all but one of the module’s primary texts were written before their lifetime. Far from being ‘contemporary’, these texts were published in another world, before the students were born”. This, to me, is confusing. Why would we have to learn about something that we did not live through and that will end up changing later on down the road?
I believe that we are moving toward a new social paradigm because everything is becoming electronic. This, however, is not going to be the solution to all the world’s problems. Technology is transforming the world and is practically, taking over the world, in a sense. I think the technology is the power in country as of right now, and it will soon become all of our knowledge.

Alright, so first for all, I am really enjoying this book. I mean the book jumps all over and the each chapter is completely different than the one before it (well it seems that way). So far, it is one my favorite, but I am only on chapter twenty three. Anyways, the author says that the lady knows absolutely everything about God, and then the lady can not understand how to read the blueprint. “The lady claimed to understand God and His Ways of Working perfectly. She could not understand why anyone should be puzzled about what had been or about what was going to be. And yet, I showed her a blueprint of the doghouse I proposed to build, she said to me, “I’m sorry, but I never could read one of those things (4).” This is funny to me, because the lady just contradicted herself. God knows everything, so when she could not read the blueprint, something was wrong. She most definitely could not understand everything about God.
I believe this to be like Postmodernism because in that book, people want to control and be able to comprehend everything. The lady in Cat’s Cradle provides a clear example of how people think they know everything until something comes along that they have never seen before. In some way, I think, Postmodernism relates to this. In Postmodernism people believe that their way of life is the only way and that they know everything just because they know everything about their own culture. However, they do not realize that there are so many other cultures. Cat’s Cradle shows this by having a woman think that she gets everything until this weird object is in front of her, and she has no idea how to approach it because she was never taught to read it. Ok, well I hope that made sense and I hope that was enjoyable to someone!!!