Nicholas Carr – Cannonball Read 17

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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

December 31, 2024 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.” This book came strongly recommended, and it seemed interesting enough so I decided to pick it up and give it a go. The Shallows is a nonfiction book about the effects of the Internet, specifically why people have shortened attention spans. Not only does it explore and discuss the […]

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The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price

August 17, 2023 by acrackedkettle 1 Comment

A double-header! I read these back-to-back and, while that was super fun for me, I would recommend picking one or the other. The Shallows is a sharply-observed exploration of what the internet is doing to our brains and how that is affecting… everything. First published in 2010, author Nicholas Carr was responding to rapidly shrinking computers and laptops and how the ability to access the internet from anywhere was altering our minds and society. Smart phones were not yet ubiquitous (the first iPhone was released […]

The Shallows

The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr

January 4, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Something like a Neil Postman book, and this book also reference Postman a few times, this book tries to answer the question what exactly are the ways in which the use of the internet affects our brains? The approach to this is through biology and neuroscience and history, and using the author’s own personal story not to explain the answer, but to model the type of user he is and to provide a kind of narrative history of what this question looks like on the […]

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