reading books chronically understimulates the senses.”11

“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

“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.”

— Nicholas Carr

“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

“As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The”

— Nicholas Carr

“those with the helpful software were found “to aimlessly click around” as they tried to crack the puzzle.27”

— Nicholas Carr

“Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.”

— Nicholas Carr

“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

“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

“In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.”

— Nicholas Carr

“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

“The strip-mining of “relevant content” replaces the slow excavation of meaning.   IT”

— Nicholas Carr

“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

“A 1989 study showed that readers of hypertext often ended up clicking distractedly “through pages instead of reading them carefully.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Activities of self-realization are subject to increasing marginal utility:”

— Nicholas Carr