Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, The Big Switch, and Does IT Matter? He has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other periodicals. He lives in Colorado with his wife.
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet's intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by "tools of the mind"--from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer--Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways. Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic--a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption--and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection. Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes--Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive--even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
你将要读到的文章,跟几乎卫报所有的内容一样——你可能已经猜出来了——是一台联网的电脑打出来的。显然,电脑和网络使我的调查相对轻松,与文章提到的人物沟通更简单,除此之外没有其他好处了。现在人们对现代通信技术的使用是如此熟稔,以至于完全没有新鲜感。但让我记忆犹...
评分没看浅薄之前,虽然依稀觉得注意力越来越难以集中了,常常为了某个原因打开网页后就不知不觉点了一个又一个“只瞄一眼就关掉”的网页,接着时间就不知不觉的溜走了。(看到这里,决定以后再看这篇文的盆友你以后真的会看么!) 这本书则从各个角度证实了我那“依稀感觉有点不对...
评分作为一个地地道道地网虫,作为一个一天离开电脑离开互联网就活不下去的生物来说,这本书的确更发人深省。 随着视线逐渐模糊,随着颈椎不时疼痛,随着右肩日渐耸起,大脑也发出一个警告,需要戒网了。第一次看到浅薄这两个字,振聋发聩。作者用无数实验和事例告诉我们,人...
评分要去美国上学了,这是学校给布置的reading material。 我看了英文原版的整本书,也与父母讨论过,更看过很多豆瓣上的书评。我写这篇其实不想对这本书的内容作太多讨论,因为其实这本书本身就是很多大家都能看明白的现状的罗列。 也许我更看重这本书的写作形式。可能是因为担...
评分6月写的英文版图书书介,中文版出的好快。 《The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains》 作者:Nicholas Carr 尼古拉斯・卡尔 出版:W. W. Norton & Company 出版年:2010-06-07 怀疑论主义者苏格拉底,大概是历史上最早一位提出对技术要怀有戒惧之心的人...
前半本都在讲发展史,完全可以略过不看
评分via jeff 思考就是对思考形式和思考内容的控制,这种控制权应该留给自己,而不是留给机器和互联网。
评分三星半。不是没有养分,但一个五星的杂志长文还是不要各种延伸比较好些
评分一本将近十年前就读过的书,最近又听了一遍...|大概对当时来说Neuroplasticity还很新,简单来讲就是想说fragmented info/online reading让人更难专注地进行深刻的思考。当下meditation兴起也算是一种回击了。果然十年以后没人需要读这本书就知道了这个道理,但大家还是孜孜不倦心甘情愿地被抖音洗脑吧- -算法早就改变了我们生活的方方面面。
评分写论文的还是赶紧把社交网站注销了吧!
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