Overview
""Is Google making us stupid?"" When Nicholas Carr posed that question in an Atlantic Monthly 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 internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration yet published of the internet's intellectual and cultural consequences. Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, The Shallows explains how the internet is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher. A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
Full Product Details
Author: Nicholas Carr ,
Richard Powers
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 16.10cm
Weight: 0.245kg
ISBN: 9781441749994
ISBN 10: 1441749993
Pages: 8
Publication Date: 07 June 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""[Carr] is an astute critic of the information technology revolution...Carr's fresh, lucid, and engaging assessment of our infatuation with the Web is provocative and revelatory."" -- ""Booklist"" ""A must-read for any desk jockey concerned about the Web's deleterious effects on the mind."" -- ""Newsweek"" ""Cogent, urgent, and well worth reading."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Neuroscience and technology buffs, librarians, and Internet users will find this truly compelling."" -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"" ""Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind."" -- ""Slate"" ""This is a lovely story well told―an ode to a quieter, less frenetic time when reading was more than skimming and thought was more than mere recitation."" -- ""San Francisco Chronicle""
Author Information
Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and four other acclaimed books. A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he writes for The Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
