The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: Nicholas Carr: 9780393339758


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so we stupid?” When Nicholas Carr raised the this problem, in a famous “Atlantic Monthly cover story, his use of a good anxiety Internet is changing our He also crystallized our era the most important debate one: When we enjoy the bounties of the network, we are sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?

Now, Carl extended his argument into the most compelling exploration of knowledge and cultural impact of the Internet has not been announced. He described the human mind has been formed after centuries of spiritual tools from the the letters map, printing press, the clock, and the computer Carl intertwined the latest findings of neuroscience, a fascinating consideration pioneer Michael tacit policy Kronig and Eric Kandel. Historical and scientific evidence that our brains, our experience. The use of technology, we find, store and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways.

Carl insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan’s based on, to make a convincing case that every IT ethical assumptions of intellectual property knowledge and wisdom of nature. He explains how the printed book to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thinking. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages rapid, there are many sources of information upset small sampling. The industrialist of ethics, ethics speed and efficiency, optimize production and consumption, the existing network to transform our own image. We are becoming more than ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but we’re losing our concentration, contemplation and reflection.

Part intellectual history, part science, cultural criticism part shallows shining the memorable episode Nietzsche wrestling, Freud typewriter marine biological brain anatomy Hawthorne consider thunderous steam locomotive, even if it method to activate (plumb) a profound state of our modern psychological problems. This is a book that will forever change the way we think about media and our minds.
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