“To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.” — Nicholas Carr Brain Copy Share Image
“As we multitask online, he says, we are “training our brains to pay attention to the crap.” The consequences for our intellectual… — Nicholas Carr Focus Copy Share Image
“when you add verbiage to a page, you can assume that customers will read 18% of it.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The Net is, by design, an interruption system, a machine geared for dividing attention.” — Nicholas Carr Computers Copy Share Image
“takes a delay of just 250 milliseconds in page loading for people to start abandoning a site.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The experiment suggested a strong correlation “between the number of links and disorientation or cognitive overload,” wrote Zhu.” — Nicholas Carr Disorientation Copy Share Image
“The strip-mining of “relevant content” replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT” — Nicholas Carr Happiness Copy Share Image
“Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that’s the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK” — Nicholas Carr Books Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the quality of our thought, our neurons and synapses are entirely indifferent. The possibility of intellectual decay is… — Nicholas Carr Philosophy of Mind 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 Customer service Copy Share Image
“The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory, but when we start using the Web as a substitute for… — Nicholas Carr Internet Copy Share Image
“One of the curiosities of the early twenty-first century is the way so much power over social relations came into the hands… — Nicholas Carr Facebook Copy Share Image
“Our modern microscopes, scanners, and sensors have disabused us of most of the old fanciful notions about the brain’s function. But the… — Nicholas Carr Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“One of its major recent thrusts has been to place a greater priority on what it calls the “freshness” of the pages… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“During the twentieth century, neuroscientists and psychologists also came to more fully appreciate the astounding complexity of the human brain. Inside our… — Nicholas Carr Brain Copy Share Image
“Jordan Grafman, head of the cognitive neuroscience unit at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, explains that the constant shifting… — Nicholas Carr Focus Copy Share Image
“When a printed book—whether a recently published scholarly history or a two-hundred-year-old Victorian novel—is transferred to an electronic device connected to the… — Nicholas Carr Books Copy Share Image
“THE ADULT BRAIN, it turns out, is not just plastic but, as James Olds, a professor of neuroscience who directs the Krasnow… — Nicholas Carr Brain Copy Share Image
“good ideas are embraced whether they come from a senior executive or the company cook.” — Nicholas Carr Business Copy Share Image
“Like other factory owners of the time, he was as much in the business of manufacturing energy as manufacturing goods. But” — Nicholas Carr Business Copy Share Image
“How do users read on the web?” he asked then. His succinct answer: “They don’t.”38” — 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 Brains Copy Share Image
“for Google, the real value of a book is not as a self-contained literary work but as another pile of data to… — Nicholas Carr Book Copy Share Image
“A 1989 study showed that readers of hypertext often ended up clicking distractedly “through pages instead of reading them carefully.” — Nicholas Carr Books Copy Share Image
“sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The” — Nicholas Carr Profits Copy Share Image
“the Web transformed the Internet from an intellectual meeting-house into a commercial enterprise.” — Nicholas Carr Business Copy Share Image
“software can end up turning the most intimate and personal of human activities into mindless “rituals” whose steps are “encoded in the… — Nicholas Carr Internet Copy Share Image
