Public Thinking Part 2

While reading "Public Thinking" by Clive Thompson, it brought up a few questions that had remained unanswered. The biggest question I had and also many other readers had is "Where does this leave us?" Thompson had not once given us a solution to the question that he had presented. It is understandable that he would like the readers to think and discover our own ideas and solutions but it seemed as though he didn't even have an answer himself.Another question I had was "Do you think that the next generation will become much better and more avid writers as technology develops and it becomes much easier to express your ideas through writing?" He had partially answered this statement through the last study he had explained but it had only applied to the current generation and not the next on to follow.

Thompson had provided us with many solid claims that he had backed up with even more concrete evidence by professional studies. This was a very persuasive element as it displayed that he had done a sufficient amount of research and that he had a good amount of knowledge on the topic that he is speaking about. Also including the real life experiences of an avid blogger were very persuasive in the sense that many people can relate to this as she was just a random girl that had began blogging. . On the other hand one of the main claims that he had provided us with was that of the Theory of Multiples. This argument was very solid but it seemed to not correlate directly with the rest of the text and I believe that it really drifted away from where his first argument began.

Thompson chose to open the text with an account of a Kenyan blogger that spoke about her home country while she was living in the United States. He had chosen to include this experience in the text because it had applied so directly to all of his claims as she spoke about how having an audience provoked her to produce more work and of better quality, she had also been listening and reading about the vast issues that have arisen in Kenya and she spoke her ideas on those that she had read about with some people having oppositions towards her and others agreeing.