“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
“It’s the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people’s behavior and shape their perceptions.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Quite a few people still listen to vinyl records, use film cameras to take photographs, and look up phone numbers in the… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the… — 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
“But as the web matured during the late 1990s, the dreams of a digital awakening went unfulfilled. The net turned out to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Technology is amoral, and inventions are routinely deployed in ways their creators neither intend nor sanction.” — 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
