The chapter focused mostly on the impact certain technologies have had on people. More specifically how maps and clock have impacted us. Nicholas Carr begins by introducing maps with an analogy of a little girl and her drawing as she gets older and how they become more sophisticated and capture and relay more information. Carr goes through the evolution of maps and how it enables man to better understand the unseen forces that shape his surrounding and existence. Maps have taken space which is a natural phenom and transformed it into an artificial and intellectual concept. The second technology Carr introduces to us is time keeping. The progress if the instruments used to keep time and how it shaped society. how iit was christian monks who initially pushed for more precise time keeping and developed the first mechanical clock in the monastery. Carr discussed how even after the initial instruments were introduced people for the most part still used to the Sun, Moon and the Stars to keep track of their day. But as people moved from the countryside to towns clocks become more relied upon. Bells would indicate when work started, to when it ended. time to  open and close the market and etc. As clocks became more personalized become started they became companions and monitors.

In chapter three of The Shallows, Carr presents an interesting outlook the effectiveness of the inventions of the map and the clock. While the map provided the ability to turn a natural aspect, such as our world and space, into an abstract phenomenon, the clock allowed us to be able to micromanage each and every sequence and moment of our lives, down to each individual thought. Carr states that every technology is an “expression of human will,” and goes on to argue that while technologies such as these have improved many facets of each individual, they have also taken away from other areas just as much.

Nicholas Carr defines this chapter of how our deceptions of space migrate as we get older.

While reading through the chapter it was shown again and again that the main idea Carr was trying to make was the way technology has shaped the way people think, not only in a psychological level, but in terms of how our brains have in a way rewired themselves to work in  a society with deeply ingrained technology. One very interesting piece of information, that I found very hard hitting, was how maps have made “both anatomical and functional changes in the hippocamus and other brain areas involved in spatial modeling and memory.” This has risen from a high dependency on maps, in other words we, as humans, do not see the need of memorizing spaces so that part of our brain has shrank, however the part of our brain that processes the abstract has increased. I’ve found that people in this day of age are more interested in the abstract than the inner working of certain subjects, something that Carr explains could have been brought up by the introduction of maps.

To me this showed his views of how Our mind is/are a tool of greatness. In the beginning of chapter 3 the story was a bit interesting, it made me think about things I did or drew as a child and if any of those things had stuck with me growing up into my adult stage, for example when Carr talks about a child and the crayon to that child now an adult creating or drawing up blueprints. Another thing that caught my attention would be when he talks about technology

In chapter three of “The Shallows”, “Tools of the Mind” by Nicholas Carr, the author makes the point about how technology affects the human minds throughout all of history. He presents his topic by using the invention of the map and clockwork; Carr expresses with much detail how is it that these inventions effected the human mind, these inventions weren’t only a set of simple tools that humans used but many also believe that these tools are proof that technology eventually uses us in order to progress it-self, however this is an argument in it self that many side with different opinions. Carr quotes Ralph Waldo when he says that “human beings are nothing more than the ‘sex organs of the machine world'” and that humans are just there to push forward technology to the point where technology can create and/or support it-self.

The main idea of this chapter is about technology changing the way we think, the influence of technology in our society and the ways technology is changing our daily life. One of the interesting facts that I found in this chapter is about the technology of the map and the clock. The Map is an new innovation of technology because of the map, it is changing the way we see things. We can use maps to navigate and also record new places but we are relying too much on this technology. The more we used maps, it is changing our thinking process. Clock is also another technology similar to map because it is about measurement and accuracy. People listen to the bells from the church as a time keeper to function such as work. We are using clock more and more often and we cannot live without it. This type of technology is reshaping our civilization and our lively hood.

In Chapter Three  “Tools of the Mind”, by Nicholas Carr describes the evolution of time and technology throughout the years.  At the beginning of the chapter depicts the advancement of maps and how it has developed over time. Map has been used not just as a form of communication and direction but also as a form of evaluation.  Technology has been  part of our daily  lives and it has influenced the way we communicate and respond to our surroundings.

The point I think Carr was getting at in chapter 3 is how the proper use of technology is instrumental in the development of an individual and society given that with the right structure it can foster maturation and intellectual growth. He used the progression of map making skills as one grows from preschool age to an adult as an example of how when one develops the way they see things and use certain tools changes profoundly. The example of how clocks are used is significant in the growth of society through structure.

In the beginning of the chapter Nicholas Carr introduces the way a child draws of various  structures like a mountain or a house, vs when the child gets older and more educated. He exemplifies that when he child is more educated an older, the so-called childish drawing it created starts to be more precise and intellectual. This example was somehow prove idea of how the minds starts adapt to certain ideas, thus making the premature thinking more advance. Nicholas Carr then introduces  the concept of evolution in the in through tools.   The main evolutionary process in tools  he first introduced was navigational tools, for example compasses, maps, and the way we as in humans pint point certain geographical features on the map.