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Nicholas Carr
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The Myth of the Informed Citizen
My latest book, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart , comes out in paperback this week. To mark the occasion, here’s an essay adapted from the book.
James McBey, General Headquarters, Bir Salem (1918).In the middle years of the nineteenth century, as the building of the American telegraph network made instantaneous long-distance communication possible for the first
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“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.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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