Weakening Argument: Internet and Concentration

Nietzsche was forced to use a typewriter when he started losing his vision. After he mastered the machine, he could type with his eyes closed. It was later found that under the effect of the machine, Nietzsche's prose "changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style".

One of the effects of the timekeeping instruments has been that we have started deciding on our daily activities based on the clock and not based on our senses.

Studies have shown that the essay writing skills of an average 15 - 20 year old, who spends a lot of time browsing the internet, is comparable to what it was among the average 15 - 20 year old, throughout the 1980s and the 1990s.

A recent study has shown that the number of people who fall asleep while reading a printed book has increased in the last five years.

The ability of the younger judges, who have grown up with ready access to internet, to judge complex and intricate cases, has, on an average, become better as compared to what it was during the 1920s.