Title:
The shallows : what the Internet is doing to our brains
Author:
Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-
Personal Author:
Edition:
Norton pbk. [ed.]
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
viii, 280 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
Discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse.
Language:
English
Contents:
Prologue: The watchdog and the thief -- Hal and me -- The vital parts -- On what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself -- Tools of the mind -- The deepening page -- 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 -- On the buoyancy of IQ scores -- The church of Google -- Search, memory -- On the writing of this book -- A thing like me -- Human elements.
ISBN:
9780393339758
Format :
Book
