“Internet users can seek out interactions with like-minded individuals who have similar values” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“We’ll know that Google has truly fulfilled its vision when the Googleplex no longer needs toilets at all.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Google, says its CEO, is more than a mere business; it is a “moral force.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The Web had turned out to be less the new home of Mind than the new home of Business. The” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“the Web transformed the Internet from an intellectual meeting-house into a commercial enterprise.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that’s the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“takes a delay of just 250 milliseconds in page loading for people to start abandoning a site.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“When we’re online, we’re often oblivious to everything else going on around us. The real world recedes as we process the flood… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory, but when we start using the Web as a substitute for… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“software can end up turning the most intimate and personal of human activities into mindless “rituals” whose steps are “encoded in the… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“lawyer and technology writer Richard Koman, argued that Google “has become a true believer in its own goodness, a belief which justifies… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“As we multitask online, he says, we are “training our brains to pay attention to the crap.” The consequences for our intellectual… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“media aren’t just channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Google, as the supplier of the Web’s principal navigational tools, also shapes our relationship with the content that it serves up so… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The faster we surf across the surface of the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google gains… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“When a printed book—whether a recently published scholarly history or a two-hundred-year-old Victorian novel—is transferred to an electronic device connected to the… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“One of its major recent thrusts has been to place a greater priority on what it calls the “freshness” of the pages… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“But as the web matured during the late 1990s, the dreams of a digital awakening went unfulfilled. The net turned out to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been at the… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators of personal… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“those with the helpful software were found “to aimlessly click around” as they tried to crack the puzzle.27” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“What is different, and troubling, is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading. Once a means to an end, a way to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“They failed to appreciate how the network would funnel the energies of the people into a centrally administered, tightly monitored information system organized to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“The near-continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our natural tendency to “vastly overvalue what happens to us… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“The strip-mining of “relevant content” replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“The Net grants us instant access to a library of information unprecedented in its size and scope, and it makes it easy for us… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“A 1989 study showed that readers of hypertext often ended up clicking distractedly “through pages instead of reading them carefully.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
“Activities of self-realization are subject to increasing marginal utility:” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share
