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homework;UNIT 2;The Internet is becoming the town square for the Global village of tomorrow.;Task 1 Describing the Picture;Task 2 Reflecting on the Reading ;3. Why do users spend less than two minutes visiting a Website when using Google?;Supplementary Reading; The search engine giant has so much information and is making it so easy for us to obtain it, that it discourages traditional avenues of learning such as studying, doing one’s own field work, and taking classes. Pro or con? Pro: Fragmented Facts by Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D, Nielsen Norman Group I have a very popular Web site, so why do I continue to write books? And why do I stick with an even older medium and gather people around the slide projector1 to speak to them in person at an annual conference? I do it because old media are highly superior to the Web for learning about complicated topics. The Web fragments information into tiny nuggets2 that can be digested during a two-minute visit to a Web site.;But what about going beyond surface facts to deeper knowledge? What was the relative strength of the various European navies during the Renaissance7, and how have they influenced the heritage8 of North Atlantic islands? Sure, there are articles about these topics on the Web, and you can find some of them with Google, but to really understand how these issues are connected and how developments hundreds of years ago continue to influence modern societies, you must read a book.; Con: Enrichment Via Information by David Alan Grier, Ph.D, George Washington University Google makes us more intelligent. Anything that gives us easy access to the vast and ever-changing body of knowledge is bound to stimulate us and make us think more deeply about the world. To claim Google makes us dumber implies that other projects that widely disseminate11 information, such as the Carnegie Libraries12 of the late 19th century and the Works Progress Administration (WPA)13 rural-life p