Analysis Of The Article 'Luddite' By David Brandt
Brandt starts her article by talking about Nicholas Carr and how he is basically a Luddite, believing that technology, specifically the Internet, is making everyone illiterate, uneducated, and ignorant. Brandt then talks about how traditionally reading and writing are thought as one thing, you can’t have one without the other. But she then counters that concept, saying that our society is changing and we are just evolving with it. Reading and writing, she states are traditionally thought as one in the same, but our brains actually react to each of them differently. Then she elaborates on that that, saying that reading and writing aren’t even similar concepts and then attempts to supports the claim that reading and writing are unrelated. She