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...
評分去年读了一本叫做《浅薄》的书,副标题很唬人,叫做“互联网如何毒化了我们的大脑”。没错,互联网的确毒化了我们的大脑,在崇尚速度、炫耀数量的互联网面前,我们很快就习惯了蜻蜓点水式的略读,却丧失了另外一些可贵的能力:专注、沉思和反省。 看看我们一头钻入互联网的怀...
評分《浅薄——你是互联网的奴隶还是主宰者》由美国思想家尼古拉斯·卡尔撰写,描写出随着技术的发展,我们的大脑思维发生了怎样的改变以及为什么会产生这样的改变。 该书的英文名为The Shallows(What the Internet is doing to our brains)在英文书名中副标题只是中立地提...
評分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...
評分从上世纪90年代开始,以个人电脑为基础的互联网得到快速发展,让我们感受到了信息获取和传输的超大方便。而面对未来,我们还将迎接以智能手机为代表的移动互联网给我们生活带来的巨大改变。处在第三次工业革命——信息技术革命的漩涡中,我们该欢呼雀跃,还是该忧心忡忡? ...
此書在互聯網對人類整個閱讀的影響的討論具有曆史意義
评分via jeff 思考就是對思考形式和思考內容的控製,這種控製權應該留給自己,而不是留給機器和互聯網。
评分2011年是讀這本書開始的。如今有必要復習一下瞭
评分寫成瞭page-turner的科普/文化研究類讀物,令人贊嘆。信息時代裏網絡/Google對深度思維和注意力的侵蝕,書中最重要而好看的其實並非這個一句即可概括的論點,而是作者抵達此論點的過程。除瞭互聯網發展史及書籍史、閱讀史、傳媒理論等,書中例證瞭大量有趣的認知神經/心理學實驗。作者旁徵博引,幾乎每段話都有引用,卻絕無無的放矢的內容。雖然美國人的Google在“毒害”著我們的大腦,但這種有力的批判和反思也來自其社會內部,這應是成熟的社會的一個錶徵。
评分改用kindle刷英文渣書後,雖然還是在讀渣書,但是我的良心好受多瞭
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