“Technology shapes economics, and economics shapes society.” — Nicholas Carr Economics Copy Share Image
“The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. —D. H. Lawrence,” — Nicholas Carr Freedom Copy Share Image
“we are “training our brains to pay attention to the crap.” — Nicholas Carr Attention Copy Share Image
“lead us to perceive minds where no minds exist, even in “inanimate objects.” — Nicholas Carr Inanimate objects Copy Share Image
“Activities of self-realization are subject to increasing marginal utility:” — Nicholas Carr Identity Copy Share Image
“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.” — Nicholas Carr Computer programming Copy Share Image
“As for the individual track being the “natural unit of music,” that’s a fantasy.” — Nicholas Carr Fantasy Copy Share Image
“their eyes skipping down the page in a pattern that resembled, roughly, the letter F.” — Nicholas Carr Pattern Copy Share Image
“It’s the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people’s behavior and shape their perceptions.” — Nicholas Carr Habits Copy Share Image
“those with the helpful software were found “to aimlessly click around” as they tried to crack the puzzle.27” — Nicholas Carr Programming Copy Share Image
“We’ll know that Google has truly fulfilled its vision when the Googleplex no longer needs toilets at all.” — Nicholas Carr Dreams Copy Share Image
“The paradox of neuroplasticity, observes Doidge, is that, for all the mental flexibility it grants us, it can end up locking us… — Nicholas Carr Flexibility Copy Share Image
“The Web had turned out to be less the new home of Mind than the new home of Business. The” — Nicholas Carr Business 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
“where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature… and all watched over by machines of loving grace. That” — Nicholas Carr Freedom 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… — Nicholas Carr New information 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… — Nicholas Carr Education 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 Business Copy Share Image
“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader… — Nicholas Carr Book Copy Share Image
“Even though the World Wide Web has made hypertext commonplace, indeed ubiquitous, research continues to show that people who read linear text… — Nicholas Carr World wide web Copy Share Image
“Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take… — Nicholas Carr Psychology Copy Share Image
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google,” he said in a 2000 interview, long before his company’s name had become… — Nicholas Carr Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
“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 Addiction Copy Share Image
“Even the earliest silent readers recognized the striking change in their consciousness that took place as they immersed themselves in the pages… — Nicholas Carr Books Copy Share Image
“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization.… — Nicholas Carr Book 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… — Nicholas Carr Art 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 Dead end Copy Share Image
“Late in his life, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith coined the term “innocent fraud.” He used it to describe a lie or… — Nicholas Carr Fraud 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… — Nicholas Carr Business Copy Share Image
“People were happier, felt more fulfilled by what they were dong, while they were at work than during their leisure hours. In… — Nicholas Carr Desire Copy Share Image
“In the YouTube economy, everyone is free to play, but only a few reap the rewards.” — Nicholas Carr Economics Copy Share Image
“Technology is amoral, and inventions are routinely deployed in ways their creators neither intend nor sanction.” — Nicholas Carr Innovation Copy Share Image
“Internet users can seek out interactions with like-minded individuals who have similar values” — Nicholas Carr Internet Copy Share Image
“Seneca may have put it best two thousand years ago: “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”51” — Nicholas Carr Seneca Copy Share Image
“There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to… — Nicholas Carr Computers Copy Share Image
“As more journals moved online, scholars actually cited fewer articles than they had before.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“As we’ve entered the computer age, however, our talent for connecting with other minds has had an unintended consequence.” — Nicholas Carr Computers Copy Share Image
“Intensive multitaskers are “suckers for irrelevancy,” commented Clifford Nass, the Stanford professor who led the research.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
