The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this immersive kind of very attentive thinking, whether you are paying attention to a story or to an argument,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed without being… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share
The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share
