Ever since the movie “terminator” aired back in 1984 the idea of a robot taking over the world has always been somewhat frightening. In the article, Carr used personification when he is talking about the Internet. Instead of simply calls the internet “internet”, he decided to give it a villain name “the Net” and describing the thing it can do like “reprogramming us” and manipulating our minds. Therefore by giving the internet a name and giving it some human characteristic, Carr was able to make the internet seem like a big threat to his reader because it could actually do some physical harm to them.
Ever since the movie “terminator” aired back in 1984 the idea of a robot taking over the world has always been somewhat frightening. In the article, Carr used personification when he is talking about the Internet. Instead of simply calls the internet “internet”, he decided to give it a villain name “the Net” and describing the thing it can do like “reprogramming us” and manipulating our minds. Therefore by giving the internet a name and giving it some human characteristic, Carr was able to make the internet seem like a big threat to his reader because it could actually do some physical harm to them.