There are a whole lot of reasons to be very happy that our brains are able to adapt and adapt so readily… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
There are a whole lot of reasons to be very happy that our brains are able to adapt and adapt so readily because we… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
