Darien Laurencin, Notes on Chapter 3 of “The Shallows”

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.

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