The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Carr, Nicholas
ISBN: 9780393357820
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A finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? This 10th-anniversary edition includes a new afterword that brings the story, "a Silent Spring for the literary mind" (Slate), up to date, with a deep examination of the cognitive and behavioral effects of smartphones and social media.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Carr, Nicholas
  • ISBN: 9780393357820
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.10 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 320
  • Publication Year: 2020

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  • Though provoking, deep, and insightful

    Hurao S. - 5 years 11 months ago

    The older this book gets, the more relevant it will become. Its message will outlive the book itself. The Shallows explores the dystopias and utopias brought on with inventions and recent technologies. This a great book for those exploring the human costs we burden for enhancing the intellect of our species.

  • A Compelling Book About the Future of Thinking #SummerReading

    Samuel J. - 6 years 2 months ago

    Nicholas Carr presents what is arguably the most persuasive and unsettling case yet that internet technologies have radically reshaped our minds, our habits, and our society. Using extensive historical research, cognitive science, and media criticism, Carr argues that "linear" reading (on the printed page) created a certain kind of intellectual development in human history that is being undone by digital reading. The evidence he presents is difficult to dismiss, and many will resonate with his personal testimony of being perpetually distracted and frustrated in his reading and thinking. Some of his predictions are a bit dated (the book was published in 2010), but the foundational premise remains the same. As social media and "immersive" technologies become omnipresent, the future of thinking has never been more fraught. This is an accessible, bracing, and highly thought provoking book. #SummerReading