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.
不知道各位有没有这种感觉: 浏览网页的时候,常常被文章中间或者侧边栏的链接吸引了去,浮光掠影地从一个链接跳到另一个链接,很少返回最初的页面;有时,也会Mark存档一些看上去很有价值的长文,结果却很少回去读它们。 在电脑前阅读很难有以前读纸质书的全神贯注。我们更...
评分我标准的一天大概是这样的: 6:00左右 被邮件推送惊醒,这个时间除了隔着时差的导师就是广告了。看一眼标题,继续沉睡。 7:30 等待闹铃响,赖床时间解锁手机,校内、豆瓣、微博挨个看一遍。 8:15 翻下床,洗漱,换衣服,带上ipod出门上班或者上课,毫无疑问,音乐均是download ...
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...
评分我们看到过以下的画面吧:手中在处理着工作的表格,电脑右下角的QQ在不停的闪,微博里同时有人@你了,在人人网发表的图片又有人评论了,刚好邮件提醒告诉你有新邮件来了,傍边的手机还在不停的震:因为微信群里面又有新消息了。各种信息载体同一时间,从四面八方向我们扑过来。...
写论文的还是赶紧把社交网站注销了吧!
评分前半本都在讲发展史,完全可以略过不看
评分读起来像是《娱乐至死》的进一步阐释,能在飞速变化着的环境下停下来,跳出去反思的人都很伟大。但讽刺的是,这样一本由一篇文章衍生出来的书也多少受了它所讨论的网络时代的负面影响。作为一本社科类图书,深度或是可读性都挺一般的。
评分2011年是读这本书开始的。如今有必要复习一下了
评分此书在互联网对人类整个阅读的影响的讨论具有历史意义
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有