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According to carr, the internet is to blame for reading becoming so much harder these days. Nicholas bagnall, the telegraph you really should read nicholas carr s the shallows far from offering a series of rants on the dangers of new media, carr spends chapters walking us through a variety of historical experiments and laymens explanations on the workings of the brain. Summary of nicholas carr s the shallows by milkyway media. Carrs argument in the shallows that the internet and computer technology are changing our brainsrelies heavily on historical context. He has written for the new york times, the wall street journal, atlantic, and wired. Two types of people are enthusiast and skeptics which both disagree on whether technology is either making us smarter or dumber. As a consequence there are profound changes in the way we live. When nicholas carr posed that question in a celebrated atlantic essay, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the internet is changing. What the internet is doing to our brains by nicholas carr norton, 2010. How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember by nicholas carr steven poole on two opposing views of the impact of the digital age steven poole. Carrs ability to crosscut between cognitive studies involving monkeys and eerily prescient prefigurations of the modern computer opens a line of inquiry into the relationship between human and technology.
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