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Carr makes some good points, and I know school librarians love him, but what he says is obvious to anyone who has a mind and a computer. We all struggle to maintain the long attention spans we have spent our lives developing, and now along come texting, web-surfing, Facebook, Outlook and Eudora's chimes that we have email, and the whole phalanx of long attention-span attackers. It's like the techno world is trying to reduce our carefully built intelligence to rubble on the restroom floor of inte
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The internet is a jumble of information: as I type this, I have two different email inboxes open in different tabs, another tab open to a blog post, instant messaging windows chiming, and text-messages being sent to my computer through Apple's iMessages systems (I forgot it was called iMessages, so I also had to open google and look that up). In short, my computer screen effectively works as a purveyor of distraction; in The Shallows, Nicolas Carr argues that the internet impacts my brain outsid
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This was a 2010 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, though it lost to The Emperor of All Maladies. It was an absolutely fascinating read. It starts with a very basic speculation on "what the internet is doing to our brains" and then pulls you into the world of neurology, describing plasticity and phantom limb syndrom and really giving you the basics before bringing it back to present-day internet and what that does. However, it is a long, enthralling journey along the path of technology - not just
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Apr 01, 2011
TheBedouin
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it was amazing
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So far so good. He is definitely close to my generation so the story started as a trip down memory lane for me.
kind of confirms my thoughts about the net's affect on the brain
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