The shallows : what the Internet is doing to our brains /
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question 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 Net's bounties, or are we sacrificing our ability to read an...
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
2011
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| Edition: | Norton paperback edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The watchdog and the thief
- Hal and me
- The vital paths
- A digression: On what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself
- Tools of the mind
- The deepening page
- A digression: 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
- A digression: On the buoyancy of IQ scores
- The church of Google
- Search, memory
- A digression: On the writing of this book
- A thing like me
- Epilogue: Human elements