The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003RCWPJW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 319 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, The Shallows explains how the Internet is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher. A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.. ''Is Google making us stupid?'' When Nicholas Carr posed that question in an Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: as we enjoy the Internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration yet published of the Internet's intellectual and cultural consequences. The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology's effect on the mind
John W. Cowan said Why there are so few worth talking to. The development of that magnificent resource for the mind, the Internet, has put us at a turning point in human history. The development of all the tools of the mind has provided turning points and in making his case Nicholas Carr takes us through what happened to us when we went from clay to papyrus to paper and from tablets to scrolls to books. With every one of these changes the world shifted some. Not as much as now thou. "Death by a thousand distracting cuts" according to Tim Lukeman. In this short but informative, thought-provoking book, Nicholas Carr presents an argument I've long felt to be true on a humanist level, but supports it with considerable scientific research. In fact, he speaks as a longtime computer enthusiast, one who's come to question what he once wholeheartedly embraced and even now, he takes care to distinguish between the beneficial & detrimental aspects of the Internet.The argument . Interesting and informative, but history-heavy Andrew Gilbreth The Shallows was an interesting read and Carr has some persuasive arguments about how our brains are changing. His main focus is regarding how our brains interpret information from written language. According to this book, our brain performs the tasks of finding and absorbing information very differently on the internet than it did with older mediums. This in turn has lead to our brains behaving differently; much to Carr's d
From Bookmarks Magazine One of the major issues dividing the critics was whether Carr's claim that the Internet has shortchanged our brain power is, essentially, correct. . In the end, Carr offers a thought-provoking investigation into our relationship with technology--even if he offers no easy answers. Still, as Lehrer, in the New York Times Book Review,points out, Carr is no Luddite, and he fully recognizes the usefulness of the Internet. Many bought into his argument about the neurological effects of the Internet, but the more expert among them (Jonah Lehrer, for one) cited scientific evidence that such technologies actually benefit the mind. Other criticism was more trivial, such as the value of Carr's historical and cultural digressions--from Plato to HAL