Empty in terms that there is a superficial view on learning new information until it is applied in everyday life. For Carr, he consumes all this information as a source of entertainment, a pastime. Now he “[spends] so much time staring at a computer screen” becoming “habituated and addicted to Internet sites and services,” as if society were becoming a pawn of the Internet. As a result, the Internet has changed the way of thinking and the structure of the mind; slowly creating human HALs. Carr ends his excerpt with the statement “I missed my old brain,” because it was once so active in its learning, but now with exposure to the Internet it has become close to being the opposite. Successfully, Carr creates a position on how the Internet has negatively impacted the way a person thinks and learns, trading an “old linear thought process” in exchange for “the riches of the Net.” Furthermore, Carr points out that if society continues with this new form of mind, everyone will become human HAL and turn against them.