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            The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

            Nicholas Carr

            2020, 320 pages

            New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "This is a book to shake up the world." —Ann Patchett Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in 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? This 10th-anniversary edition includes a new afterword that brings the story up to date, with a deep examination of the cognitive and behavioral effects of smartphones and social media.

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            "Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the number stance of the technological idiot," [McLuhan] wrote. The content of a medium is just "the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind." Not even McLuhan could have foreseen the feast that the Internet has laid before us: one course after another, each juicier than the last, with hardly a moment to catch our breath between bites. As networked computers have shrunk to the size of iPhones and BlackBerrys, the feast has become a moveable one, available anytime, anywhere. It's in our home, our office, our car, our classroom, our purse, our pocket. // eat, eat, eat, and never, ever pause to think about it.

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            "Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the number stance of the technological idiot," [McLuhan] wrote. The content of a medium is just "the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind." Not even McLuhan could have foreseen the feast that the Internet has laid before us: one course after another, each juicier than the last, with hardly a moment to catch our breath between bites. As networked computers have shrunk to the size of iPhones and BlackBerrys, the feast has become a moveable one, available anytime, anywhere. It's in our home, our office, our car, our classroom, our purse, our pocket. // eat, eat, eat, and never, ever pause to think about it.

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