“Experiments show that just as the brain can build new or stronger circuits through physical or mental practice, those circuits can weaken… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“It’s dubious and dangerous, Drucker is saying, to mistake what’s measurable for what’s important.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.” — Nicholas Carr Collective memory Copy Share Image
“To hold inventors liable for the misuse of their inventions is to indict progress itself. That’s” — Nicholas Carr Innovation Copy Share Image
“Christof van Nimwegen began a fascinating study of computer-aided learning that a BBC writer would later call “one of the most interesting… — Nicholas Carr Education Copy Share Image
“The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“their eyes skipping down the page in a pattern that resembled, roughly, the letter F.” — Nicholas Carr Pattern 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
“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
“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 Internet Copy Share Image
“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 Books 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
“media aren’t just channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what… — Nicholas Carr Focus Copy Share Image
“The Net grants us instant access to a library of information unprecedented in its size and scope, and it makes it easy… — Nicholas Carr Intelligence Copy Share Image
“The more a sufferer concentrates on his symptoms, the deeper those symptoms are etched into his neural circuits. In the worst cases,… — Nicholas Carr Addiction Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form.” — Nicholas Carr 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
“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
“In the YouTube economy, everyone is free to play, but only a few reap the rewards.” — Nicholas Carr Economics 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
