World wide web Quote by Nicholas Carr

““Even though the World Wide Web has made hypertext commonplace, indeed ubiquitous, research continues to show that people who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read text peppered with links.””

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“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…

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“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.”

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“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…

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“As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The”

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“those with the helpful software were found “to aimlessly click around” as they tried to crack the puzzle.27”

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“Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.”

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

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“They failed to appreciate how the network would funnel the energies of the people into a centrally administered, tightly monitored information system organized to…

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

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“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.”

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“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…

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“The strip-mining of “relevant content” replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT”

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The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people,…

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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything,…

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