“The paradox of neuroplasticity, observes Doidge, is that, for all the mental flexibility it grants us, it can end up locking us… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“lead us to perceive minds where no minds exist, even in “inanimate objects.” — 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
“As we’ve entered the computer age, however, our talent for connecting with other minds has had an unintended consequence.” — 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
“Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing,… — 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… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Bad habits can be ingrained in our neurons as easily as good ones. Pascual-Leone observes that “plastic changes may not necessarily represent… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The more a sufferer concentrates on his symptoms, the deeper those symptoms are etched into his neural circuits. In the worst cases,… — 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
