“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
“Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that’s the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Internet users can seek out interactions with like-minded individuals who have similar values” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“When a printed book—whether a recently published scholarly history or a two-hundred-year-old Victorian novel—is transferred to an electronic device connected to the… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“When we’re online, we’re often oblivious to everything else going on around us. The real world recedes as we process the flood… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“the Web transformed the Internet from an intellectual meeting-house into a commercial enterprise.” — 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 Image
“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“those with the helpful software were found “to aimlessly click around” as they tried to crack the puzzle.27” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“The strip-mining of “relevant content” replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
