Carr believed that the development of the internet shortened the attention span of humans. He also believed that it effected our ability to store deep information that we would have learned without the internet, now we just have the ability to have shortcuts wired in our brain to access the hidden information. The belief that reading to yourself, at one point, labeled you as different because that was just something people didn’t do because most history or stories were passed down orally. With reading to yourself it is like their are two selves present, one who is reading and one who is being read to. I agree with Carr, because I feel that reading aloud and teading to yourself is different in that when you read aloud you do not really process what you are reading, you are just focusing on getting the words right. However, when you read to yourself you can self reflect and interpret what you are reading. You gave an example of the two selves as wearing a suit to class, where one self is uncomfortable and the other is conforming to maintain the public image that is required of them. This is also a relation to the public vs. private self and how if we don’t maintain the distinction between public and private then public breaks down. At the end of class you challenged us with the thought that we can develop a new self, where we can read to ourselves and do a job that we hate, when at one point we wanted that job. You said that it was the theory of the brain rewiring itself, however I just think that it is the perception of the idea of the job is changing. For instance, you may see a job such as a soldier or firefighter as a heroic and glamorous job, but then you try it out and you realize how much work it is and then you start to not like that job anymore because you have gained more knowledge of the job.