6/28/2023 0 Comments The shallows how the internetIn an early chapter, he articulates his foreboding: “what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. In the ensuing decade, smartphones and social media have achieved an unparalleled cultural primacy and Carr’s message is not so easily disregarded.Ĭarr wrote this book because he observed-with great alarm-that deep, focused reading was becoming increasingly difficult for him and his peers. These deleterious effects were poorly understood and readily dismissed in 2010 when Carr first published The Shallows. The impact has brought positive and negative changes, but it is the latter that is given the spotlight. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (10th anniversary edition, 2020) is critical exploration on the impact of the internet on human cognition.
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