Synonyms:



Synonyms:

touching, moving -

in a desolate, miserable way –

try to mend –

walk slowly –

restless, unsettled –

unruly, wilful –

significant, revealing –

to fragment, to weaken –

ease, comfort –

omnipresence –

engrave, print, stamp –

mastery, art –

twined, interlinked –

shorten, diminish, reduce -

learned -

easily influenced -

submit, attend to orders –

to include or absorb sth else –

diverge, disperse –

in harmony with –

organize, order –

find –

essence –

transform –

connected, joined –

disquieting –

lament –

suitable –

well-informed –

languish, lose spirit –

benison –

reestablish –

high-priced –

connection –

hopelessness –

1. What is paradoxical about the Kubrick’s film?

2. In what way has Carr’s mind been recently changing?

3. What are the positive and negative effects of the Internet for a writer?

4. According to Scott Karp what are the reasons why he has stopped reading books?

5. Why do some people think that we might be reading more than people did in 1970s or 80s?

6. Why do humans have to be taught to read?

7. How did the use of typewriter affect Nietzsche’s style of writing?

8. What was the general belief concerning our brains and in what way has it changed?

9. What did the mechanical clock bring into being and what did it take away? In that sense, what did the Internet do to our minds?

10. What did neuroscience reveal about the changes of our brains?

11. What’s the ultimate ambition of Google’s founders?

12. Why do companies want us to search on the Net?

13. What were Socrates’ worries concerning the written word? What positive aspects of writing and reading he didn’t foresee?

14. What were some scholars’ worries concerning printing press?

15. What are the writer’s worries concerning our use of Internet?

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