“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google,” he said in a 2000 interview, long before his company’s name had become… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“In his 1993 book Technopoly, Neil Postman distilled the main tenets of Taylor’s system of scientific management. Taylorism, he wrote, is founded… — 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
“for Google, the real value of a book is not as a self-contained literary work but as another pile of data to… — 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
“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
“One of the curiosities of the early twenty-first century is the way so much power over social relations came into the hands… — 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
