Title:
The shallows : how the Internet is changing the way we think, read and remember
Author:
Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-
ISBN:
9781848872264
9781848872257
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Publication Information:
London : Atlantic, 2010.
Physical Description:
276 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue: The watchdog and the thief -- Hal and me -- The vital paths -- On what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself -- Tools of the mind -- The deepening page -- On Lee de Forest and his amazing audion -- A medium of the most general nature -- The very image of a book -- The juggler's brain -- On the buoyancy of IQ scores -- The church of Google -- Search, memory -- On the writing of this book -- A thing like me -- Human elements
Abstract:
Is the Internet making us stupid? In this book, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing dramatically how we think, remember and interact.
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