What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits… — 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
