Google

Hmmm....so I kinda mention this Google thing on my last blog, but I shall go on more detail today.

I believe that Vonnegut wrote his book the way he did as a way to makes us aware of what it is going on. People can no longer read long books or pay attention to something for a long period of time. His book is structured to keep us interested in it. This is why the chapters are short and there are a lot of them. A person's attention spam is shorter than it was years ago.
This is all due to the fact that so much information is compressed or simplified so we can know what is going on by reading a paragraph rather than reading a book on the subject. Search engines like Google have made our lives a lot more simple that is for sure. For example, Carr says “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I've got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after.” Back then it took a lot of people and tons of books to find the answer to a question. Now all you have to do is type in a question and have people answer it for you. We don't really have to read a book anymore because we have things like Sparknotes or Cliffnotes, basically a whole book summarized by chapter and it also comes with an analysis. So now we don't even have to think of the meaning of the book because you can just go along with what sparknotes says. The thinking is done for you.
Another thing is that technology advances so fast, you can no longer have the latest anything, because a couple of weeks later if anything, there will be a new and improved product. For example, computers, you buy one and later you find out that there is one that is a lot better and can so much more than the one that you just got. Or cellphones, they can basically do anything now and there is always a new and better one. So are we ever going to be happy with what we have? Are we ever going to catch up with technology? Or by the time that we realize that we are going in a vicious cycle is it going to be too late?