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.
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 ...
評分 評分我们的大脑具有高度的可塑性,书中提到的心理学和生理学实验已经足够证明了,互联网改变我们大脑的结构,进而影响我们的思维方式、阅读方式注意力等等,我们不得不面对。就在我读这本书的过程中,我发现我已经不太容易集中注意力将某一章连续读完,即使读完也没有太深刻的印象...
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...
評分讀起來像是《娛樂至死》的進一步闡釋,能在飛速變化著的環境下停下來,跳齣去反思的人都很偉大。但諷刺的是,這樣一本由一篇文章衍生齣來的書也多少受瞭它所討論的網絡時代的負麵影響。作為一本社科類圖書,深度或是可讀性都挺一般的。
评分看瞭四個月…這是有多碎片化…爭取周末來寫讀後感
评分前半本都在講發展史,完全可以略過不看
评分: B845.1/C312
评分前半本都在講發展史,完全可以略過不看
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