Nicholas Carr

As part of Clark's Fall 2010 Difficult Dialogues program, Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains," discussed the ways in which our online existence is rewiring our minds, replacing deep thought with information overload, and overruling attentiveness with a steady stream of interruptions and distractions. This saturation of technology, he says, is affecting us at the cellular level and turning us into what one researcher terms "suckers for irrelevancy."

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[kdlambright45]

Since the day I read "Is Google Making Us Stupid" by Nicholas Carr, I have completely agreed with his view on technology. This form of artificial intelligence we are forming is nice to have and also an easy way out, but the long term effects and future effects that this spread of corrupting technology is destroying our lifestyle. Pretty soon we will be going out to eat and to class through a screen.Next thing you know we will be leaving in a world similar to the Matrix.Keep up the good work Carr

[muhammadzahmad]

this is worth watching...

[5annent]

im a reader!!! i luv bks ,but this net will make the bk archaic]bks been around since who knows when] im sorry 2 see bks lose some of their relevance,but i will embrace the change its very exciting i luv it

[brokennarcissist]

'This is the new media equivalent of a book burning... neuroscience proof(s) is completely deadening,

Simply put, Carr's work is a sickening.