Read this passage from $"$Is Google Making Us Stupid?":

As we use what the sociologist Daniel Bell has called our "intellectual technologies"$-$the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities$-$we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies. The mechanical clock, which came into common use in the $14$th century, provides a compelling example. In Technics and Civilization, the historian and cultural critic Lewis Mumford described how the clock "disassociated time from human events and helped create the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences." The "abstract framework of divided time" became "the point of reference for both action and thought."

This evidence from Carr's argument demonstrates that: