Shallows : What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
ISBN: 9780393339758 | 0393339750
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 6/17/2011
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#x1C;Is Google making us stupid?#x1D; When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated 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 Net#x19;s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet#x19;s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped... MORE
| Prologue: The Watchdog and the Thief | p. 1 |
| Hal and Me | p. 5 |
| The Vital Paths | p. 17 |
| a digression on what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself | p. 36 |
| Tools of the Mind | p. 39 |
| The Deepening Page | p. 58 |
| a digression on lee deforest and his amazing audion | p. 78 |
| A Medium of the Most General Nature | p. 81 |
| The Very Image of a Book | ... MOREp. 99 |
| The Juggler's Brain | p. 115 |
| a digression on the buoyancy of IQ scores | p. 144 |
| The Church of Google | p. 149 |
| Search, Memory | p. 177 |
| a digression on the writing of this book | p. 198 |
| A Thing Like Me | p. 201 |
| Epilogue: Human Elements | p. 223 |
| Afterword to the Paperback Edition | p. 225 |
| Notes | p. 229 |
| Further Reading | p. 257 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 261 |
| Index | p. 263 |
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Nicholas Carr is the author of The Big Switch and Does IT Matter? He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Wired. He lives in Colorado with his wife.
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