The shallows : what the Internet is doing to our brains
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN/612.8/CARR,N
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
Norton paperback [edition]
DESCRIPTION
viii, 280 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393339758, 0393339750 :, 0393339750, 9780393339758
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prologue: The watchdog and the thief -- Hal and me -- The vital paths -- A digression : on what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself -- Tools of the mind -- The deepening page -- A digression : 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 -- A digression : on the buoyancy of IQ scores -- The church of Google -- Search, memory -- A digression : on the writing of this book -- A thing like me -- Epilogue: Human elements
Discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse