The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
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As I reflected on this, I started to think again about a book I had read ten years before: The Shallows by Nicholas Carr—a landmark work that really alerted people to a crucial aspect of the growing attention crisis. He warned that the way we are reading seems to be changing as we migrate to the internet—so
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
Nicholas Carr • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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