![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He notes studies that have found that people often use the Internet while simultaneously engaging in other media, like. Even as computers have become faster, the time people spend on them increased because of all the functionalities the computers allow. Carr puts together an informative history of brain science to back up his argument. The latest neuroscience says that our grey matter is malleable and plastic. He points out that a distinguishing factor of the Internet is that users can both send and receive messages through the medium. Is the internet really altering the way our minds work. Carr puts together an informative history of brain science to back up his argument. Carr, the consistently trenchant analyst of technological change who wrote The Shallows, here offers a thoughtful and sometimes disturbing account, grounded in science and poetry alike, of the ways that our increasing reliance on technology is affecting our happiness and re-shaping our humanity. Carr follows the development of the Web as it began to be able to process multimedia from sound to videos. The Shallows is, writes Slate, a Silent Spring for the literary mind. The Turing machine could do any information-processing task, but it would take a long time to do extremely complicated ones. With The Shallows, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction and a New York Times bestseller, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the net’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. ![]() In Chapter 5, called “A Medium of the Most General Nature,” Carr reflects on the year 1954, in which people began to mass produce digital computers and the British mathematician Alan Turing, who created the blueprint for the modern computer, had killed himself. ![]()
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