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An eye-opening in many ways. Made me think of buying a house on top of a mountain where there is no phone signal. In the end, it's our reactions that matter; when adopting a new technology, we should think more critically: benefits versus disadvantages, because sometimes it's not worth it.
The Internet is clearly changing the way we consume information - but is it also altering the "wiring" of our brains?[a:Nicholas Carr|151353|Nicholas G. Carr|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]'s new book ([b:The Shallows What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains|6966823|The ...
Presents a compelling theory about what happens to our thinking as we hop from tweet to tweet to email to link, and when we use Evernote (or similar services) to augment our memory. Also talks about where profound ideas come from -- what's "deep" thinking. Lots of history and neurobiology mixed in.I...
I found this book to be difficult to get through. I felt that it wasn't well organized and the writing could have used some help. I realize the subject matter was probably a little heavy at times (which can't be helped, I suppose), but the information and the transitions between subjects didn't f...
It's kind of ironic that I listened to this book in audio format, since that represents a reversion to the oral tradition and the days before silent reading became prevalent, as Carr describes in his overview of the history of printed books. There were also times where my attention flagged and my br...
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