Nicholas Carr

“We are how we read.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Google, says its CEO, is more than a mere business; it is a “moral force.”

— Nicholas Carr

“vastly overvalue what happens to us right now,”

— Nicholas Carr

“reading books chronically understimulates the senses.”11”

— Nicholas Carr

“Conscious craft turned into unconscious routine. When”

— Nicholas Carr

“selling things to early adopters is wise.”

— Nicholas Carr

“hypertext readers often “could not remember what they had and had not read.”

— Nicholas Carr

“true enlightenment comes only through contemplation and introspection.”

— Nicholas Carr

“The key to memory consolidation is attentiveness.”

— Nicholas Carr

“In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form.”

— Nicholas Carr

“We’ll know that Google has truly fulfilled its vision when the Googleplex no longer needs toilets at all.”

— Nicholas Carr

“The paradox of neuroplasticity, observes Doidge, is that, for all the mental flexibility it grants us, it can end up locking us…

— Nicholas Carr

“The Web had turned out to be less the new home of Mind than the new home of Business. The”

— Nicholas Carr

“Seneca may have put it best two thousand years ago: “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”51”

— Nicholas Carr

“where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature… and all watched over by machines of loving grace. That”

— Nicholas Carr

“In the YouTube economy, everyone is free to play, but only a few reap the rewards.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Technology is amoral, and inventions are routinely deployed in ways their creators neither intend nor sanction.”

— Nicholas Carr

“In a talk at a recent Phi Beta Kappa meeting, Duke University professor Katherine Hayles confessed, “I can’t get my students to…

— Nicholas Carr

“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

“The near-continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our natural tendency to “vastly overvalue what happens…

— Nicholas Carr

“What is different, and troubling, is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading. Once a means to an end, a…

— Nicholas Carr

“I felt lost without the Delete key, the scrollbar, the cut and paste functions, the Undo command. I had to do all…

— Nicholas Carr

“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own…

— Nicholas Carr

“United States, along with Canada and the United Kingdom, has become a “plutonomy” where “economic growth is powered by, and largely consumed…

— Nicholas Carr

“the inevitability of turning the pages of books into online images should not prevent us from considering the side effects. To make…

— Nicholas Carr

“Even the earliest silent readers recognized the striking change in their consciousness that took place as they immersed themselves in the pages…

— Nicholas Carr

“Bad habits can be ingrained in our neurons as easily as good ones. Pascual-Leone observes that “plastic changes may not necessarily represent…

— Nicholas Carr

“Although neuroplasticity provides an escape from genetic determinism, a loophole for free thought and free will, it also imposes its own form…

— Nicholas Carr

“Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing,…

— Nicholas Carr

“The faster we surf across the surface of the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google gains…

— Nicholas Carr

“The more a sufferer concentrates on his symptoms, the deeper those symptoms are etched into his neural circuits. In the worst cases,…

— Nicholas Carr

“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

“The Net grants us instant access to a library of information unprecedented in its size and scope, and it makes it easy…

— Nicholas Carr

“THE DESIRE FOR PRIVACY is strong; vanity is stronger.”

— Nicholas Carr

“our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.”

— Nicholas Carr

“we program our computers and thereafter they program us. Even”

— Nicholas Carr

“information is a commodity that can be processed by a machine.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”

— Nicholas Carr

“When we speak with emoji, we’re speaking a language that machines can understand.”

— Nicholas Carr

“lead us to perceive minds where no minds exist, even in “inanimate objects.”

— Nicholas Carr