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...
Discuss: This book took me a month to read because I have internet caused ADD and can't manage to focus on something long enough to process it correctly.Basically, this book terrified me. I guess in a good way. I realize that though I spend lots of time on the internet, I also read a significant amo...
I didn't know there was going to be so much about books and reading; I liked those parts the best.It was interesting, but I don't really agree with his conclusions. I think when he expanded his original article he actually contradicted himself. Yes, our brains adjust to the ways we use them. That's...
It just feels so wrong to spend time online writing a review about a book that tells us why we should spend less time online. Robert Frost awaits me, and I dasn't dally. I'll paste in my replies from the comments section and let that suffice. The two biggest things the internet is doing to our brain...
All the way through this book I was thinking....."yeah, and?" "is this really news to anyone"? My brain is different, not special, just different and I went through a lot of crap before I came to this realization.I'm dyslexic, something that was never diagnosed, because they didn't have a word for ...
Everyone's talking about this book, and I felt I had to check it out. I agree: it's definitely worth reading. In particular, it drove home, more effectively than anything else I've seen, just how addictive the Internet is. As he says, you don't want to admit to yourself how much you crave internet s...
Mr Pinker, vacuous decrier of this book. I wonder if you might listen in on the salutary tale of what happened to my brain some years ago and the general relevance of this tale to the Internet society in which we now live....the story, the moral, the solution are here:http://alittleteaalittlechat.wo...
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