The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. By Nicholas Carr. Norton; 276 pages; $26.95. Published in Britain by Atlantic in September as “The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember”; £17.99. Buy fromAmazon.com
IN 1492, the same year that Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, a Benedictine abbot named Trithemius, living in western Germany, wrote a spirited defence of scribes who tried to impress God's word most firmly on their minds by copying out texts by hand. To disseminate his own books, though, Trithemius used the revolutionary technology of the day, the printing press. Nicholas Carr, an American commentator on the digital revolution, faces a similar dichotomy. A blogger and card-carrying member of the “digerati”, he is worried enough about the internet to raise the alarm about its dangers to human thought and creativity.
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. By Nicholas Carr. Norton; 276 pages; $26.95. Published in Britain by Atlantic in September as “The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember”; £17.99. Buy fromAmazon.com
IN 1492, the same year that Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, a Benedictine abbot named Trithemius, living in western Germany, wrote a spirited defence of scribes who tried to impress God's word most firmly on their minds by copying out texts by hand. To disseminate his own books, though, Trithemius used the revolutionary technology of the day, the printing press. Nicholas Carr, an American commentator on the digital revolution, faces a similar dichotomy. A blogger and card-carrying member of the “digerati”, he is worried enough about the internet to raise the alarm about its dangers to human thought and creativity.
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