The new development of technology has caused a change in today's culture and its habit.  In today's age it is much easier to get the information you need earlier and the information you desire right after that.  With the technology we have at our disposal we are able to have more free time to create a cognitive surplus, to use our time in a way that benefits ourselves and our society.  In this article the author defines literacy as the ability to understand at a deeper level, almost in the same way that Socrates felt.  In a way for information not to be taken at face value.  The author does state that doing mindless things such as watching television or surfing the web is not always bad to do in one's free time as long as he or she balances it with things that benefit cognizance. 

If one were to use the Method they would be able to see things such as these:

1. Binaries - Something that the world will never grow tired of.
2. Patterns dealing with repetition - Information that comes up more than once in a literary work.
3. Anomalies - Information the general public is unaware of
4. Strands of similarities - Using the surplus of what you have to your advantage

The strands of similarities in this article talks about how one should use the extra time or other resources to his or her advantage.  Wasting these every time someone runs into them leads to becoming stagnant of digressive in one's cognizant growth.

The claim of this article is that our minds are being reprogrammed to prefer reading a book or an article fed to us through the internet and not from the inked pages.  The author states that his friends and colleagues are sharing his dissatisfaction in that they can no longer sink smoothly into the words of large piece of literary work but more of having to force their brains to delve into it.   The literacy of this article is stated as being able to pull information one desires out of text, or the inability to do so.  The similarity between Socrates Nightmare and this article is that they are both trying to absorb the information from the text but the difference is that Socrates Nightmare took things at face value while the other took a deeper view at the information and tried to form an opinion about it.  The author supports his article by stating that he as a writer personally is having trouble delving into a book or long article the way he used to.  He also gives evidence pertaining to others around him.  He talks about his colleague Bruce Friedman, a pathologist from the University of Michigan Medical School, is having trouble with this same issue.  Friedman states that he skims anything that contains more than just a few paragraphs.  Finally his last piece of evidence is brought from a psychological perspective from experiments conducted by scholars of the University of College London whose results tell us that we are in the midst of change when it comes to the way we read and think to due internet use.  This evidence is absolutely effective due to the sources of the evidence.  The answer to this answer is that we a human beings in a technologically advanced world must be careful about overusing the technology we have at our disposable due to the possibility of losing our basic ability to absorb information in a simple way.