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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (W. W. Norton paperback, 2011; first published 2010)

Nicholas Carr · c. 2010

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  1. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
  2. The Net is, by design, an interruption system, a machine geared for dividing attention.
  3. The Net grants us instant access to a library of information unprecedented in its size and scope
  4. We become, neurologically, what we think.
  5. We become mindless consumers of data.
  6. It’s not only deep thinking that requires a calm, attentive mind. It’s also empathy and compassion.
  7. We are welcoming the frenziedness into our souls.
  8. Google is, quite literally, in the business of distraction.
  9. the Net is best understood as the latest in a long series of tools that have helped mold the human mind.

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