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 must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but… — 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
