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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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Item Description...
Overview
Expanding on an article that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the best-selling author of The Big Switch discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse.
Publishers Description
"Neither a tub-thumpingly alarmist jeremiad nor a breathlessly Panglossian ode to the digital self, Nicholas Carr's The Shallows is a deeply thoughtful, surprising exploration of our `frenzied' psyches in the age of the Internet. Whether you do it in pixels or pages, read this book."-Tom Vanderbilt, Author of Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)
"Nicholas Carr carefully examines the most important topic in contemporary culture---the mental and social transformation created by our new electronic environment. Without ever losing sight of the larger questions at stake, he calmly demolishes the cliches that have dominated discussions about the Internet. Witty, ambitious, and immensely readable, The Shallows actually manages to describe the weird, new, artificial world in which we now live."-Dana Gioia, Poet and Former Chairman Of The National Endowment For The Arts
"The core of education is this: developing the capacity to concentrate. The fruits of this capacity we call civilization. But all that is finished, perhaps. Welcome to the shallows, where the uneducating of homo sapiens begins. Nicholas Carr does a wonderful job synthesizing the recent cognitive research. In doing so, he gently refutes the ideologists of progress and shows what is really at stake in the daily habits of our wired lives: the reconstitution of our minds. What emerges for the reader, inexorably, is the suspicion that we have well and truly screwed ourselves."-Matthew B. Crawford, Author of Shop Class As Soulcraft
"Ultimately, The Shallows is a book about the preservation of the human capacity for contemplation and wisdom, in an epoch where both appear increasingly threatened. Nick Carr provides a thought-provoking and intellectually courageous account of how the medium of the Internet is changing the way we think now and how future generations will or will not think. Few works could be more important."-Maryanne Wolf, Author of Proust and The Squid: The Story And Science of The Reading Brain
When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic 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'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's intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by "tools of the mind"---from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer---Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways
Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries anintellectual ethic---a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption---and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection
Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes---Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive---even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds |
Item Specifications...
Pages 276
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 6.5" Height: 9.75"
Weight: 1.22 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Jun 7, 2010
ISBN 0393072223
EAN 9780393072228
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Availability 32 units.
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